Mentors and recommended books

As a consultant, an engineer, or just any employee, you are responsible to provide solutions to challenges and issues you face on the workfloor. No no, let me say it this way, you are responsible to come up with ideas to improve a situation, make it more efficient. Or, in ...

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Object Design

One of the books I got recommended early in my career was Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities, and Collaborations by Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and Alan McKean. The topic of this book is OOD (Object-Oriented Design). It is a wordy book, which could certainly could have been shorter, but the content makes certainly ...

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Document generation using Markdown and Pandoc

Maintaining documentation can be an involved process, especially when different versions and output formats are needed. One of the documents I, and probably you also, have to maintain is your work history or resume/CV. Some while back I changed this document from an OpenOffice document to plain text and ...

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Highly Available storage using GlusterFS

In this article I will describe how you can setup a webserver environment with Highly Available (HA) storage, provided by GlusterFS. We will be setting up a simple environment in which storage between two webservers needs to be replicated.

GlusterFS is a scalable network filesystem suitable for data-intensive tasks. It ...

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