Tag: RAM
Building an Embedded System Based on the Initial RAM Disk
Here's a rough tutorial on writing an embedded Linux based system, using an initial RAM disk.
The initial RAM disk (initrd) is a tool for...
Setting Up OpenAM for Web Authentication
OpenAM provides a system for integrating diverse Web applications-to share common authentication and authorisation systems. It can protect applications running on any Web or...
A Peek into Open Source Licences
Open source is the mantra of today's tech world. While it is being used in that personal computer sitting on your desk, it is...
Use CoffeeScript To Write Your JavaScript
JavaScript has become the lingua franca of the Web and has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. Many frameworks and technologies have...
Virtualisation Face-off: Qemu, VirtualBox, VMware Player and Parallels Workstation
In this article, we take a look at four of the most well known and commonly used virtualisation software for Linux.
When it comes to...
Web Acceleration with Varnish 3.0
In this article we'll setup a ready-to-deploy WordPress-compatible Varnish service as our HTTP reverse caching proxy, and have it cache the desktop and mobile...
Speed up Your Cloud with Memcached
Is your website running into performance bottlenecks? Does the database or backend feel like a really expensive resource, even though you've got a huge...
Device Drivers, Part 15: Disk on RAM — Playing with Block...
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, experiments with a dummy hard disk on RAM to demonstrate how block...
WordPress on Nginx, Part 2: vhost, MySQL & APC Configurations
Last time around we made our Debian VPS ready with the LEMP recipe. Let's now configure the stack and migrate over the old WP...
nexenta: Bringing Enterprise Storage to the Open Source World
This article discusses some of the challenges and technologies related to data storage, and introduces the Nexenta Core Platform, which is an OS based...
