Varnish is an HTTP accelerator (cache) application. We make heavy use of Varnish here at Revenni and recently started deploying it alongside Hitch. Varnish is designed to sit in front of your web server and have all clients connect to it. You configure your web server as a backend [...]
We design and support a lot of deployments on a wide variety of platforms. Our clients are dispersed across Linode, Vultr, Digital Ocean, OVH, and AWS, which are all great platforms in their own right. They all have their different pros and cons; however, one thing they all share [...]
There are two types of digital nomads, those who have a single workhorse device and those who have several. This post covers the challenges faced by the latter type. When I'm in the office I have a MacBook connected to a 34" ultrawide monitor. This is where most of [...]
MySQL is one of the worlds most popular opensource databases in use today. Much of MySQL's success can be attributed to its general ease of installation and usability. A functional MySQL installation is a single package install on most Linux distributions. It's so easy to hit the ground running [...]
We are occasionally requested to set up and deploy mail services for our clients so that their services can send reminders, notifications, billing runs, etc. Thankfully, mail is one of our fortes. We have built and maintained mail clusters utilizing open source software (OSS) such as postfix and dovecot [...]
