29 Stories To Learn About Servers

Let's learn about Servers via these 29 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the /Learn Repo to find the most read stories about any technology.

1. Using a REST API with Python

Requesting fitness data (backlog) from Terra requires HTTP requests, so I’m writing an essential guide here on using a REST API with Python.

2. You’ll Need to Use a Proxy Server, Sooner or Later

Why in large web scraping projects there's the need of proxy servers? Here a brief explanation of what they are and how they work and their differences.

3. Containers vs. Serverless: Which is Better for DevOps?

Managing your own containers versus letting serverless do it for you - when to choose what? Let's go over the pros and cons.

4. A Look at the Cost of Downtime

Over half of businesses need more than one hour to recover a crashed application, costing over $10,000 for every hour of downtime. With how much we rely on technology, system monitoring is more important than ever. The world depends on IT, so when systems fail it makes an impact on people and businesses followed by monetary consequences. Many large companies may be able to pay for protection, but what about the small to medium sized companies that remain vulnerable to uncertain infrastructure?

5. How Nutanix VM Works

In the era of enterprise cloud, modern enterprise datacenter must support virtualization with high availability and live VM migration. The traditional storage area networks (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS) doesn’t suit. Instead, they are ideal to manage a logical unit number (LUN). A LUN can be a single disk, an entire redundant array of independent disks (RAID), or disk partitions.

6. Edge Computing is So Fun Part 5. CDN Is The Magic Inside Disney’s Streaming Services

Without the CDN infrastructure, Disney+'s 100 million subscribers will not be able to enjoy the movies at home during the pandemic.

7. Difference Between ECC and Non-ECC RAM

Error-Correcting Code (ecc), protects your system from potential crashes and inadvertent changes. So how about it be a ram server? Worth or not?

8. The Data Revolution: Green, Accessible, and Fully-Decentralized

it's time to make data sexy again. Let's revive the dream of a truly neutral Internet, from the people for the people with wide accessibility and no censorship

9. Best Physical Security Practices for Your Server Room

Your server room hosts your most important assets, so it deserves proper protection. Here are four physical security strategies to keep your server room secure.

10. Businesses Have Countless Web Hosting Options: Here's What They Are

In the earliest days of the Internet, pioneering businesses didn't have too many options to get their companies online. At the time (the mid to late 1990s), web hosting options were minimal.

11. Understanding APIs and How to Test Them

API (an abbreviation of Application Programming Interface) is a special interface (a set of commands/controls) that is designed for the interaction of different

12. Node.js Vs Flask: Which One Has A Better Performance

Curious about how Flask stacks up against Node.js? These are my thoughts on the matter.

13. Tutorial: How to Quickly Set up NodeJS Server

NodeJS is a popular framework of JavaScript used for back-end web development. And for this, a server is as important as the backbone to a human body. So in this tutorial, we'll learn how to quickly set up a nodeJS server.

14. How Properly Configure Nginx Server for TLS

This is a follow up on a story that I've published a few years ago. It still receives a huge amount of traffic so I decided to update it with the latest information.

15. Developers and Cloud IaaS: Why Devs Should Set Up Their Own Cloud Infrastructure

Why Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) still rules, even for developers.

16. Apache Web Server Hardening: How To Protect Your Server From Attacks

he web server has a crucial role in web-based applications. Since most of us leave it to the default configuration, it can leak sensitive data regarding the web server.

17. Which GPU is Better for Business, the RTX 4090 or a Server RTX A5000?

We shall compare Nvidia's new gaming graphics card, the GeForce RTX 4090, and the powerful RTX A5000 server card.

18. VMware vCenter Converter Alternatives for V2V?

VMware is commonly used to set up data centers for organisations. If the most commonly used solution doesn't work, some alternatives may work better for you.

19. How to Connect With External MySQL Servers (Part 1: Select Operations)

This tutorial shows how to perform basic select queries to interact with MySQL Server using mysql2 gem.

20. The Bare Facts: What Businesses Have to Gain with Dedicated Servers

By Andreea Jakab, Bigstep

21. Functional Testing With Your Backend in Go

For Terrastruct, which has a little over 50K lines of code as of now, I've only written functional end-to-end tests. This blog post describes a successful setup that took some iterating to get to, and it's one I wish existed when I started with a Go API backend.

22. How to Automate the Creation of a Development Server

In part one, I have shown how to create a remote development using DigitalOcean and rsync. In part two, I will show how to automate the entire process using Bash script.

23. 🐲 Dragon Router Introduction: HTTP Router and URL Matcher For Building Deno Web Servers

⚡A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Deno web servers with dragon 🐲.

24. Alternative Overview of the SSMSBoost Add-in for SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Today we will do a short review and features comparison of dbForge SQL Complete and SSMSBoost.

25. Insight Into TCP/UDP, Network Vulnerabilities and Defense Approaches

This article provides the network vulnerabilities and defense approaches, with a focus on all the TCP and UDP ports, Port vulnerability, and learn more about Windows, Linux server operation guide.

26. HTTP Made Easy: Understanding the Web Client-Server Communication

If you are anywhere related to web development, understanding the concepts of HTTP plays a vital role. So let us understand more about HTTP and its concepts in brief.

27. How to Connect With External MySQL Servers (Part 2: Insert & Update Operations)

This is the second part of the series where we perform insert and update operations to interact with the MySQL server in Rails using MySQL2 gem.

28. How to Create a Remote Development Server

Introduction

29. Graceful shutdown in NodeJS

In this article, I am going to show you how to do a graceful shutdown in NodeJS application, but first, let's describe what does “graceful shutdown” means and why we need to do that in our application and what are the benefits.

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