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Find Long Running Ops Kill Long Running Ops This script kills long running ops in MongoDB (taking seconds as an arg to define “long”) attempts to be a bit safer than killing all by excluding replication related operations and only targeting queries as opposed to commands etc.
URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a URL may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL. For example, the URL “https://example.com/assets/category_B/Foo/” can be shortened to “https://snip.ml/Foo”, and Read More
All request transferred over plain HTTP can easily be sniffed by a MITM attacker, but it is not enough to encrypt the forms. If you are visiting plain HTTP pages while logged in, your session can be hijacked, and not even two-factor authentication will protect you. To protect all info sent between your visitors – Read More
A reverse proxy is a server that takes the requests (http/https) & then transfers or distributes them to backend server. Backend server can be an application server like Tomcat, wildfly or Jenkins etc or it can even be another web server like Apache. But why do we even need a reverse proxy in front of Read More
Securing your websites with an SSL certificate is now a must for all website admins, else the web browsers will mark the website as unsafe to visit, causing the loss of website traffic. But SSL certificate is not cheap, but there is a way around to get an SSL certificate for free with only downside Read More
Securing your websites with an SSL certificate is now a must for all website admins, else the web browsers will mark the website as unsafe to visit, causing the loss of website traffic. But SSL certificate is not cheap, but there is a way around to get an SSL certificate for free with only downside Read More
Ubuntu Nginx is available with default Ubuntu Repositories. So simple install it using the following command, $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nginx CentOS/RHEL Since Nginx is available with default RHEL/CentOS repositories, we either need to enable official Nginx repository or Epel repository Nginx Repository To enable Nginx repository, create a file named Read More
NGINX, articulated as motor X, is a famous web server that, likewise, serves as a turn-around intermediary, stack balancer, and HTTP store for HTTP, TCP, and UDP servers. Structured by Igor Sysoev in 2004, this web server was planned as an approach to sidestep the C10k issue. NGINX is open-source software that currently runs on Read More
The HTTP/2 specification was published as RFC 7540 in May 2015, which means at this point it’s a part of the standard. This was a major milestone. Now we can all upgrade our servers to use HTTP/2. One of the most important aspects is the backwards compatibility with HTTP 1.1 and the negotiation mechanism to Read More
In this article, I’ll work through a practical example of how to add a Let’s Encrypt-generated certificate to your Express.js server. But protecting our sites and apps with HTTPS isn’t enough. We should also demand encrypted connections from the servers we’re talking to. We’ll see that possibilities exist to activate the SSL/TLS layer even if it Read More