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Introduction NGINX is a high-performance HTTP server as well as a reverse proxy. Unlike traditional servers, NGINX follows an event-driven, asynchronous architecture. As a result, the memory footprint is low and performance is high. If you’re running a Node.js-based web app, or .NET Core Web Application, you should seriously consider using NGINX as a reverse … Read more
In this post, I will show you how to build charts in your web application using C3.js reusable charting library. Introduction C3.js is D3.js (D3 = Data Driven Document) based JavaScript chart library. It is simple to use, customizable and provides a nice API. It can be used to create visualizations using SVG, HTML & … Read more
Introduction In few previous posts on Ubuntu and Linux commands, we saw few of the useful commands. In this post, we will learn few more Linux commands and also learn how to pipe these commands together to build a powerful customized tool from small simple building blocks. But before we start combining/piping commands together, lets … Read more
In this post, we will setup postgres on Ubuntu machine running on Azure Cloud. Introduction There are a few different ways to spin up an PostgreSQL database in Microsoft Azure or other cloud providers. You can use managed services, use docker containers etc. One option is to spin up a Linux VM and install PostgreSQL … Read more
Introduction This is the 2nd article in this series. In previous article, we saw how to install ubuntu and started with some basic commands. In this post, we will continue our journey and learn few more commands to widen our knowledge. There are lot of Linux command and you may be using some more than … Read more
Introduction Ubuntu is free, open-source Operating System which you can install on your laptop, or desktop. It comes in desktop and server versions. Ubuntu is easy to install, simple to use, safe, secure, fast and massively powerful. Ubuntu is a distribution of Linux. The Linux kernel is at the core of the operating system and … Read more
Introduction Mediator pattern is a very well known pattern in programming and in this post, we will see what it is, what it brings to the table and a very simple implementation to understand some of the situations where we can think of using it. A mediator pattern, encapsulate, how object’s interact and communicate with … Read more
Introduction Observer pattern is simply a publish/subscribe relationship. Like a person of interest we have an object of interest which we call subject or publisher and then we have interested parties and these parties are called observers or subscribers. Subject have something to say and observers are there interested in that saying. When we arrange our code … Read more
Introduction In this post, we will see how to create PDF documents in .NET using PDFSharp library. PDFsharp is the Open Source .NET library that easily creates and processes PDF documents on the fly from any .NET language. The same drawing routines can be used to create PDF documents, draw on the screen, or send … Read more