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CPU usage high…is there a bot flooding you with requests?

CPU Usage High Is there a Bot at work? Alright something is going on, we are getting new relic alerts. As you can see something strange started on the 5th of October. Check Under server -> Apps on New relic and see what is the application that is causing the High CPU Usage. In this case it […]

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Magento

Speeding up Magento Server Response a journey into High Performance

I have been working on quite a highly visited magento store by South African standards. The task is to improve the performance and response times inclusing the magento server response and page load of the site as that had never been a high priority. Furthermore lots of custom development and dare I say it magento […]

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Kibana using lots memory

Is Digital Oceans 1-click-deploy ELK stack poorly configured on purpose? Kibana is using too much memory I wanted to see what juicy stats and info I could get out of the logs some of my servers were creating. Eventually I ran into the kibana using lots memory error. But I went through the Install ELK […]

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book reviews

Peter Thiel – Zero to One Book Summary and Highlights

Pieter Thiel – Zero to  One is a series of lectures presented at Stanford University in the US. The course is CS183 The startup and Peter Thiel, a Paypal founder and overall smart guy goes over what we should be thinking about when starting a company. It is more than just starting a company and […]

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ansible GNU/Linux ubuntu

How to install Ubuntu 16.04 and Automatically Install all my apps

How to install Ubuntu 16.04 and Automatically Install all my apps I’m assuming this gets searched quite a lot. It is one thing installing ubuntu, but another hugely time consuming gig installing all the old applications that you like. Couple that with your configurations of .bashrc, application configs, editor configs and logins for apps and […]