Articles: Infrastructure

Infrastructure and DevOps concepts — DNS, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, cron jobs, Linux commands, and the command line tools that keep systems running.

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Learn & Tutorials: Infrastructure

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What is Terraform?

A practical guide to Terraform: Infrastructure as Code concepts, HCL syntax, providers, state management, the plan/apply workflow, and best practices.

2026-07-05
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What is a Service Mesh?

A practical guide to service meshes: sidecar proxy pattern, Istio and Linkerd, mutual TLS, traffic management, and when a service mesh is worth the complexity.

2026-06-26
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What is a CDN?

A practical guide to Content Delivery Networks: how edge caching works, cache headers, purging strategies, and choosing between Cloudflare, Fastly, and CloudFront.

2026-06-17
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Monitoring vs Observability

A practical guide to monitoring and observability: the three pillars (metrics, logs, traces), SLOs and SLIs, alerting strategies, and tooling choices.

2026-06-08
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Load Balancing Explained

A practical guide to load balancing: Layer 4 vs Layer 7, round robin, least connections, weighted algorithms, health checks, and cloud load balancer options.

2026-05-30
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Linux Command Line Guide: Essential Commands for Developers

Essential Linux command line commands for developers: file management, text processing, networking, process management, and shell scripting.

2026-05-18
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Kubernetes Pods & Services Explained

A practical guide to Kubernetes core concepts: pods, containers, services, deployments, ReplicaSets, namespaces, and how they fit together.

2026-05-06
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How DNS Works: Domain Names, Resolvers, and Record Types Explained

A complete guide to DNS: how domain names resolve to IP addresses, record types, TTL, caching, and security.

2026-04-24
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How Cron Jobs Work: A Complete Developer Guide

A complete developer guide to cron jobs: the cron expression format, special characters, managing crontabs, timezone pitfalls, and modern infrastructure equivalents.

2026-04-12
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Docker and Containers Explained: Images, Layers, and Orchestration

A practical guide to Docker: containers vs VMs, images, Dockerfiles, volumes, networking, and orchestration with Kubernetes.

2026-03-31
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CI/CD Pipelines Explained: Build, Test, Deploy Automation

A complete guide to CI/CD: how build, test, and deployment pipelines work, from GitHub Actions to Jenkins and beyond.

2026-03-28
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Ansible Explained

A practical guide to Ansible: agentless configuration management, YAML playbooks, inventory management, idempotency, roles, and comparison with Puppet and Chef.

2026-03-28

Press & Reviews

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Tools.Fun: Developer's Swiss Army Knife

SysCast reviews tools.fun — a comprehensive collection of 25+ web-based developer utilities.

2026-03-28
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Enterprise Linux Solutions & Supporting Tools

LinuxCIO explores how tools.fun utilities complement enterprise Linux management.

2026-03-28
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Mobile App OTA Updates: Implementation Guide

CodePush guide to implementing over-the-air mobile updates using tools.fun developer utilities.

2026-03-28