ZeroMQ ZeroMQ is a library used to implement messaging and communication systems between applications and processes - fast and asynchronously. If you have past experience with other application messaging solutions such as RabbitMQ, it might come a... Read More

More often than not, as a developer you will be responsible for managing the server(s) your application runs on to a certain degree. When it comes to choosing the operating system, especially for production, going with a sound choice such as CentOS... Read More

Understanding uWSGI and Using Nginx uWSGI is an ambitious project. Its toolset allows you to do so much more than simply hosting web applications. Since it does the job so well, and in such a performant way, over the years it has proven to be an... Read More

This time, we will expand on this idea and create Nagios plugins using Python. Step 1 - Install NRPE apt-get install -y python nagios-nrpe-server useradd nrpe && update-rc.d nagios-nrpe-server defaults Step 2 - Create your Python Script It... Read More

Docker in Brief The docker project offers higher-level tools, working together, which are built on top of some Linux kernel features. The goal is to help developers and system administrators port applications - with all of their... Read More

The Python programming language is a versatile, high-level language that can be used easily for web programming, among other tasks. Building web applications can be difficult and toilsome on your own. Web frameworks preform much of the heavy lifting... Read More

Web frameworks provide a quick and easy way to jump start a web application. Almost every web framework adheres to the MVC software pattern. MVC stands for model, view, and controller. It is a way of distinguishing and separating the different... Read More

This time, we will expand on this idea and create Nagios plugins using Python. Step 1 - Install RPMForge Repository and NRPE rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm yum -y install python nagios... Read More

In this article, we will talk about three main things: Python, Web Servers, and most importantly the bits and bobs in-between the two. Jokes aside, this rather long article might seem dire for some looking for quick guidance or answers. Unfortunately... Read More

When it comes to working with Python, especially in the domain of application development, there are certain tools that you will see being mentioned often in various places or open source code. Despite being extremely commonly used, unfortunately... Read More

uWSGI provides an implementation of the WSGI specification and is both a protocol and an application server. For more, please refer to the uWSGI docs here. Although in this tutorial we will setup a standalone uWSGI server, it is generally kept... Read More