A beginner's guide to the Linux terminal: There’s a café a few streets away from where I live, and I go there every Sunday for a regularly scheduled game of D&D. They have a menu, and the first few times I ordered, I looked over the menu for several minutes to see what my choices …
A beginner's guide for contributing to Apache Cassandra: Apache Cassandra is an open source NoSQL database trusted by thousands of companies around the globe for its scalability and high availability that does not compromise performance. Contributing to such a widely used distributed system may seem daunting, so this article aims to provide you an easy …
A beginner's guide to network management: Most people connect to at least two networks every day. After you turn on a computer or mobile device, it connects to a local WiFi network, which in turn provides access to the interconnected network of networks that is “the internet” (a combination of the words interconnected networks). But …
A beginner's guide to load balancing: When the personal computer was young, a household was likely to have one (or fewer) computers in it. Children played games on it during the day, and parents did accounting or programming or roamed through a BBS in the evening. Imagine a one-computer household today, though, and you can …
A beginner's guide to developing with React: React is a JavaScript user interface (UI) library that was built and is maintained by Facebook. React helps JavaScript developers think logically and functionally about how they want to build a UI. With React, you can build: Single-page applications Applications that are easy to understand Scalable applications Cross-platform …
A beginner's guide to Kubernetes Jobs and CronJobs: Kubernetes is the default orchestration engine for containers. Its options for controlling and managing pods and containers include: Deployments StatefulSets ReplicaSets Each of these features has its own purpose, with the common function to ensure that pods run continuously. In failure scenarios, these controllers either restart or …
A beginner's guide to Kubernetes container orchestration: Last fall, I took on a new role with a team that relies on Kubernetes (K8s) as part of its core infrastructure. While I have worked with a variety of container orchestrators in my time (e.g., Kubernetes, Apache Mesos, Amazon ECS), the job change sent me back to …
A beginner's guide to everything DevOps: A great deal has happened since DevOps became a common term in the IT world. With so much of the ecosystem being open source, it’s important to review why it started and what it means to IT careers. What is DevOps? While there is no single definition, I consider …
A beginner's guide to building DevOps pipelines with open source tools: DevOps has become the default answer to fixing software development processes that are slow, siloed, or otherwise dysfunctional. But that doesn’t mean very much when you’re new to DevOps and aren’t sure where to begin. This article explores what a DevOps pipeline is and …
Python 3.7 beginner's cheat sheet: The Python programming language is known for its large community and diverse extension menu, but much is packed into the language itself. This cheat sheet rounds up a few built-in pieces to get new Python programmers started. Download the Python 3.7 beginner’s cheat sheet read more: Opensource.com nhuntwalker Supporting Open …
A beginner's guide to collecting and mapping Twitter data using R: When I started learning R, I also needed to learn how to collect Twitter data and map it for research purposes. Despite the wealth of information on the internet about this topic, I found it difficult to understand what was involved in collecting and mapping …
A beginner's guide to microblogging on Mastodon: Twitter started out like many exciting tech projects. It invented and then offered a unique “microblogging” service, a kind of interactive RSS feed. Twitter as a company was open to fresh ideas and offered a lot of features. It gradually became such a big deal in modern web …
A beginner's bumpy journey to find a few good bugs: Did you land on this story looking for advice on how to start contributing to open source? There are tons of these stories on the interwebs, aren’t there? And I am sure you must have read a lot of them by now, because you’ve been trying …