by Abhishek Thakur | Apr 18, 2023 | Blog, linux
HandBrake is a popular video transcoding software that can be used to convert video files into different formats. While the software comes with a graphical user interface (GUI), it also has a command-line interface (CLI) that can be used to automate the transcoding...
by Abhishek Thakur | Mar 14, 2023 | Blog, linux
sudo is a program for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows a user to run programs with the security privileges of another user (superuser by default). When administering a server, you may want users to be able to run commands as root, an...
by Abhishek Thakur | Mar 13, 2023 | Blog, linux
Samba lets you share files and printers between computers running Microsoft Windows or computers running Unix. It is an implementation of dozens of services and dozens of protocols, including NetBIOS over TCP/IP (NBT). Samba sets up a network share of the selected...
by Abhishek Thakur | Mar 10, 2023 | Blog, linux
Ansible is a software tool suite that enables infrastructure as code. It is open-source and includes software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment functionality. Nobody enjoys doing the same thing over and over. IT administrators can use...
by Abhishek Thakur | Mar 6, 2023 | Blog, linux
Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is a distributed, in-memory key-value database, cache, and message broker with optional durability. Redis popularised the concept of a system that can function as both a store and a cache. It was designed in such a way that data is...
by Abhishek Thakur | Mar 3, 2023 | Blog, linux
Yarn is the leading JavaScript package manager developed by Facebook in 2016 for the Node.js JavaScript runtime. An alternative to the npm package manager, Yarn was created in collaboration with Facebook, Exponent, Google, and Tilde (the company behind Ember.js) to...