Vagrant is a very useful automation software when you craete virtual machines regularly, e.g. for software testing and DevOps. It is a command line tool that is used by developers to build and manage their preferred virtual machines. It makes it easy for developers to set up a developing environment that works on many operating … Read more
Elasticsearch is a free and open-search software, meaning its source code can be inspected and used for any purpose. Elasticsearch is just one part of the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) which constitute an open-source log analytics platform. It enables users to analyze data stored in virtually any structured or unstructured format across numerous … Read more
Cockpit is free, open-source software that provides a web-based graphical interface for Linux servers and appliances (such as firewalls and network switches). Cockpit is a web-based server administration tool targeted at the new generation of sysadmins who need to manage many Linux servers. Its main goal is to make multiple managing servers more accessible. Cockpit … Read more
Brasero is an open-source tool, which made specifically for Linux / UNIX operating systems to burn CD and DVDs. It is a freely available tool written in C language and offers some unique features that allow users to create discs quickly and easily. It has a user-friendly front-end interface for running the backend tools such … Read more
Apache Cassandra is a free and open-source NoSQL database with high performance, scalability, and availability. It is designed to handle large amounts of data across hundreds of machines in a single cluster. It offers both synchronous and asynchronous replication and batch processing on top of a columnar storage engine. Cassandra is written entirely in Java … Read more
What is Tor? The Onion Router, or Tor, is a free and open-source service that allows users to surf the web anonymously. It may be used to prevent websites and apps from tracking or attempting to identify your whereabouts. This is accomplished by routing your network traffic across a global network of servers and removing … Read more
KVM refers to the Kernel-based Virtual Machine which helps to run multiple Linux or window-based isolated guests along with their own OS and virtual dedicated hardware. To run KVM, we need processors with hardware virtualization extensions, such as AMD-V or Intel-VT. It was originally designed for x86 processors, so having x86 processors is quite preferable. … Read more
Gradle is a general-purpose build tool that is popular with Java developers. It has a simple syntax that makes it easy to learn, and it can be used to build a wide variety of projects, from simple Java applications to complex enterprise systems. One of the things that makes Gradle so popular is its flexibility. … Read more
Yarn is a package manager for Node (Node.js) and is a replacement for npm (node package manager). Instead of installing from a registry, Yarn installs packages from other nodes on your network that have already downloaded the packages. This speeds up the installation for projects with many node modules. Yarn has some advantages: First, it … Read more