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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rework book summary introduction I recently finished a good, short and simple book called Rework, by DHH and some other guy at 37 Signals. They are the guys that created Ruby on rails and the basecamp agile collaboration tools. The book is about the things they have learnt over the years in their pragmatic creation of basecamp. They share […]