Tips & Tricks

Linux logs offer developers and system administrators a detailed account of all events, requests, and activity on the server. Log files can be used to monitor critical events in the kernel, the server, and for any services or applications actively running.  Server administrators can review comprehensive diagnostic information about performance, ranging from kernel events to …

If you work in DevOps, you may have heard, or be familiar with, continuous integration and continuous deployment. Often, people use these terms interchangeably, but this is incorrect.  Consider that you wish to implement a change to your web application – for simple changes, these are often made directly. But when you’re considering improving your …

With over a million websites powered by Laravel, Google pushing the importance of website speed, and users less & less accepting of anything other than an incredibly smooth user experience – some are giving PHP & frameworks like Laravel the reputation of being less performant than other frameworks. While there very well may be truth to …

Joining some of the best Facebook groups for SysAdmins and developers is a great way to learn, improve, and stay up-to-date with the industry.  Any developer with more than a year of experience will know for a fact that tech is always evolving. With so many popular tools, languages, libraries, and other technologies out there …

Are you looking for extensions to enhance your security and privacy? Although Incognito Mode aims at making your browsing experience secure, sometimes it just isn’t enough. Chrome may be the world’s most popular web browser, but it isn’t the most private one. It does, however, provide a number of Chrome extensions that you can freely …

In May of 2021, Google made Core Web Vitals a direct ranking factor which means website performance and user experience has never been more important. In order to figure out how the website performs, there are numerous performance testing tools that you can use and get all kinds of data. Also, it’s important to know …

Looking for an alternative to Google Analytics? You’ve come to the right place. Dominating over 85.4 percent of the market for web analytic tools, Google Analytics is (by far) the most popular way to measure and track the performance of the website. While Google Analytics is no doubt an incredibly powerful tool – it’s not the …

For more than ten years, the Cloudflare team has provided security services to website creators worldwide and is currently helping thousands of businesses maintain and secure their online resources. Since its creation, Cloudflare has released many strong firewall utilities, such as IP rules, CIDR rules, ASN rules, country rules, and HTTP user-agent blocking, to name …

If you’ve ever worked in a team of software developers – chances are you’ve heard them mention Git, GitHub, forking, and version control. The internet is rife with comments from developers about how GitHub is a godsend and completely changes the way they write code; but, what is GitHub anyway? At its core, GitHub is a …