Tag: open source
Gadfly: Enabling Publication-Quality Plotting with Julia
Visualisation of data in the form of plots is an important requirement in today’s Big Data scenario. This article introduces Gadfly – a visualisation...
Develop a Tip Calculator Application in App Inventor 2
Moving on down the invention lane, let’s create a simple Android application that calculates the tip we should give at a restaurant. Do have...
rpcgen: The Simple Way to Develop Distributed Applications
In distributed computing, the data and the services processing the data are placed in different computers connected by a network. This makes developing a...
LXD: The Pure Container Hypervisor
A hypervisor is computer software, firmware or hardware that can create virtual machines. LXD is bundled with Ubuntu 16.04, and has the advantage of...
An Introduction to OpenNebula
OpenNebula is a simple, feature-rich and flexible solution for the management of virtualised data centres. It enables private, public and hybrid clouds. Here are...
Run Docker on the Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform is one of the leading public cloud infrastructures that allows you to run applications, perform data analysis and various tools. Docker,...
Docker: A Favourite in the DevOps World
Docker is the world’s leading containerisation platform designed to make it easier to create, deploy and run various applications by using containers. Docker containers...
Deploying a Jekyll Blog in Docker
Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. It takes a template directory containing raw text files in various formats, runs it through a...
Puppet: The Popular Choice for IT Automation
Puppet is used to configure UNIX-like computer systems as well as Windows systems. It uses its own declarative language or a domain specific language....
Linux System Administration: Managing Users and Groups
This is an article that takes the reader back to the basics of Linux. It covers the various aspects of users and groups in...
