Knowing how to handle redirects is important if you want your site to perform well despite all those changes. Adding and removing content, changing domains, reorganizing, and more are some things that happen on a website. To achieve this, you can create redirect rules in a .htaccess file at the…
Web Servers
Why is Kubernetes an Important Tool ?
Kubernetes also known as “K8s”, automates the deployment and management of cloud-native applications by orchestrating containerized applications running on a cluster of hosts. With this tool, workloads are distributed across a cluster and dynamic container networking is automated. It allocates storage and persistent volumes to running containers, scales automatically,…
What is WSGI and Why is it necessary?
WSGI is a specification for how a server and application communicate. Both the server interface, as well as the application interface, are specified in PEP 3333. A WSGI application (or framework or toolkit) can be stacked on any server that conforms to the WSGI specification. These applications are compatible…
Introduction to Docker and its Use Cases
Several development teams are focusing on Docker as one of their favorite container-based platforms. It is becoming increasingly popular due to its reliability, performance, and functionality. The open-source containerization software and its underlying components must therefore be understood. In this article, we will focus on Docker, containers, use cases…
Introduction to Redis. What is it? And Why Do we Use it?
A NoSQL database known as Redis (which stands for Remote Dictionary Serve) is an in-memory key-value data store, cache, message broker, and queue that runs quickly. This project was initiated by Salvatore Antirez Sanfilippo, the original developer. He developed a real-time web log analyzer and wanted to increase the…
What is an API Gateway? And Why is it Important?
API gateways are tools that allow you to manage APIs between a client and a collection of backend services. API gateways act as reverse proxies to collect API calls from clients, aggregate the services required to fulfill them, and return the appropriate results. An API gateway sits in front…
A Complete Guide to Microservice Architecture
An architecture based on microservices consists of a series of small, autonomous services. Each service is self-contained and should implement a single business capability within a bounded context. a bound context is a natural division within a business and provides a definite boundary within which a domain model can…
What is a Web Socket API?
A WebSocket API is a modern technology that can establish a two-way interactive communication session between a user’s browser and a server. By using this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without polling the server. Most commonly, WebSocket is a duplex protocol that…
What is a Linux server? And Why do we Use it?
Linux servers are widely used today and considered among the most popular due to their stability, security, and flexibility, which outperform standard Windows servers. These servers are built on the Linux operating system. And as these operating systems are open-source, users benefit from a strong community of resources and…
How do RESTful APIs work? An Insightful Guide
RESTful APIs are the kind of APIs that follow the constraints of a REST architectural style. We have covered a full article on the background architecture of this kind of API, its pros and cons, and its principles. This article focuses mainly on the way the REStful APIs work,…