Recently, I wrote about the dynamic resolution of upstream servers in nginx which was achieved by quite an intrusive patch to the core nginx module. The patch was invented a while ago and was working very well up until recent nginx versions were released.

With the release of nginx 1 … read time 9 min.

UPDATE: This approach was superseded by the proxying through systemd-socket-proxyd approach.

Many of my clients are running application stacks consisting of nginx plus some kind of scripting engine behind it (be it PHP, Ruby, or something else).

The architecture I designed for this kind of workload involves at least two … read time 1 min.

VMware VMs from a Linux-based PC. Tags: howto, hack Alias: /2010/11/howto-vmware-player-as-remote-console.html

Since I am doing a lot of remote systems administration tasks due to the nature of my IT consulting work and since I am also running Linux on all my computers I was looking for a … read time 14 min.