Merging Pillars in SaltStack is supported but somewhat limited. In this post, I reveal a technique to utilise Jinja2 templating for pillar manipulation.

After my Seagate Central died, I got given an alternative from WD. This is my quick and dirty WD MyCloud 2T NAS review and personal experience.

Choose your poison, apache or nginx. Cost effective way of reverse proxying, load balancing and sticky sessions by URL parameters for testing.

Dashlane vs 1Password, a quick and dirty comparison of the two, most secure, most well known password managers in 2014.

I liked the seamless Pylint integration in Eclipse/Pydev and after I switched permanently to PyCharm, I was curious how I could run pylint in pycharm.

Solving camel activemq clients in tcp time_wait for java applications that make large number of asynchronous request.

Python script to search all saltstack formulas available on github, then make local copies of them. If we already have then just keep our copy up to date.

Cost effective way of connecting your office networks with pfSense 2.1.3 to Amazon VPC over OpenVPN terminated on an EC2 instance.

Couchbase quota is a simple thing but misunderstanding or misconfiguring its limits can have impact on your performance or data integrity.

Couchbase 1.8 supports two types of buckets but the memcached bucket is limited, does not support persistence, failover so this article is about the couchbase bucket type and its maintenance. We t...