Front-end your Application Servers with Nginx

(Originally published by MC Press Online in December 2015). In the article “Drivers, Start Your Nginx!”, I discussed how to install the Nginx web server and walked through how to setup a simple index.html hello world program.  An obvious next step would be to have Nginx act as a front-end to your application servers so […]

A (root) Change for the Better

(Originally published by IBM Systems Magazine in December 2015). This past week I was configuring a customer’s machine to be a Git server and ran into an interesting issue. Whenever I ran Git commands I would get errors like the following: $ git init fatal: Out of memory? mmap failed: No such device I went […]