There are a huge number of WordPress hosting providers out there. Even WordPress does hosting on wordpress.com. There are pros and cons to using these hosting providers vs hosting it yourself. I will leave it up to you as to whether or not you should pay someone else to host your WordPress site, or if …
How to setup a lab for Netapp Clustermode (CDOT)
Today we will discuss how to setup your own lab for testing out/learning Netapp Data OnTap. Today’s discussion will be related to cluster mode since all new installations at this point are running cluster mode. The last version of 7-mode was 8.2.3. And the latest version of Cluster mode is version 9.5. In the future, …
Converting JSON to CSV and back again using Python
When working in with data in any programming language, it is very common to use both JSON and CSV data structures. Today we will discuss how you can convert your JSON files to CSV files. And how to convert your CSV files into JSON files. There are a variety of reasons you might want to …
Creating CLI Utilities with Python
If you do any sort of automation, you have probably done a fair amount of work using the CLI on your computer. This is applicable regardless of the platform. If you use Python you might have asked yourself how you could start making your own command line utilities to help you in your daily …
How to Autoscale your wordpress site on AWS
WordPress is a very popular platform for running websites. I have read reports of WordPress hosting up to 27% of websites. With WordPress powering so much of the web, you might be asking yourself how you can design your website to run on wordpress. There are many WordPress hosting sites out there that you …
What is the python requirements.txt?
If you have browsed any python projects on Github or elsewhere, you have probably noticed a file called requirements.txt This requirements.txt file is used for specifying what python packages are required to run the project you are looking at. Typically the requirements.txt file is located in the root directory of your project. If you open …
Troubleshooting Python on MacOS
MacOS ships with Python 2.7 Pre-installed. This is helpful when you are just getting started with Python since you can just start using it with no setup. Unfortunately, Python 2.7 is going out of support in 2020, so we all need to get to upgrading to Python 3. When you start upgrading Python, there is …
What is hybrid cloud?
Moving stuff to the cloud has been all the rage in the last few years. And for many situations that is the right thing to do. Especially when you are working on a Greenfield project where you can design everything from scratch. However, in many organizations, you have applications and servers that cannot or should …
Python Unit Testing using pytest
Unit testing is the act of testing a small unit of your code. Generally, this means you are testing a function or a class in isolation. If you are doing this unit testing manually, you simply run your function, then check and make sure it gave you the expected output. This is what you have …
What is the Cloud?
For the last few years, the word Cloud has been used a lot. It seems as though everyone has latched onto this word cloud. But what does the cloud really mean? My definition of the cloud is the internet. A cloud service would be a service that is hosted by someone else and you access …
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