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If you hear mention of k8s or kube then what’s being talked about is Kubernetes, a portable, open-source container orchestration platform that was designed by Google and based on their Borg system. It can automate many of the manual processes…
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) relies on various technologies and one of them is machine learning. Machine learning is ongoing data analysis that allows the system to refine its operations in response to new information. Computers that use machine learning employ algorithms…
Markup Language
Markup language refers to a computer language that defines elements inside a document with tags. As markup language is readable by human users, files written in this form feature standard words instead of the programming syntax seen elsewhere. Of the…
MVC
MVC ( Model-View-Controller ) is an architectural pattern which has existed for a long time in software engineering and is in use by majority of programming languages. Model here is about the data and actual business logic. It takes care…
Netmask
Netmask and subnet mask are often used as if they’re the same thing, but subnet masks are mostly used in network configurations, while netmasks often refer to classes of IP addresses. They’re used to define a range of IP addresses…
On-Demand Services
The concept of on-demand services dovetails neatly with cloud computing, which allows VM or server provision to be accessed cheaply and easily, and once again it’s Linux’s ability to scale quickly at low cost that powers this innovation.
Open Source
In the simplest terms, open source refers to computer program code where the source code is free for anyone to view and to study. There are many examples of open source: Linux is an open source operating system, and the…
PaaS
PaaS (Platform as a Service): It seems like you can put any service in the cloud these days and slap “aaS” on the end to make it a ‘thing’. Platform as a Service is there for developers who are developing…
RAID
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks, and it’s great for backup purposes. The word ‘redundant’ comes from the fact that the same information is written to more than one hard disk, so if an active disk fails then…
robots.txt
Web crawling bots need some instructions to be able to understand your website. Robots.txt is the text file that provides those instructions. Consider Google – it has web crawlers that categorizes and archives a website. Google robots, like the robots…