If you are running some kind of e-commerce store, it’s quite possible that your product images are protected with watermark. At the same time original uploaded images are not available for public access.
All nice and good! But what if some of your partners request access to original images without watermarks? …
I was happily eating my apple when one of our developers reached out to me with strange issue. Basically he couldn’t fall asleep and decided to go through our mysql binlogs files ( yeah, I know! 🙂 ).
Anyways, earlier this week we discovered some issues with our shipping labels being rejected and our provider said that we were sending duplicate ids. …
Prerequisites
Here is real world scenario: You have this project you are working on, it requires php 5.3 ( yeah, old I know 🙂 ) in fpm mode + xdebug + nginx and maybe something else (database?). You spent couple days configuring all that stuff on your workstation and everything works.. …
From time to time your Logstash process may crash and you start seeing gaps on your Kibana graph (you graph logs and monitor those, right? ). That may also, coincidentally?, correlate with downtime you had 10 minutes ago.. So you need to replay missing events back into Logstash and figure out what happened. …
Bright side
Finally Docker hype reached FastCompany and here I am adding to it : ) I wish I started with Docker intro post first, but I bet there are tons of stuff like this already on the nets. Instead I’ll assume most readers will already be familiar with Docker in some way. …
I’ve been looking at different facets implementations while working on REST Search API for my ecommerce store. Some of the solutions I saw were simple to achieve (like plain faceting by terms with single selection), while others required some thinking and some extra work.
Today we will talk about Zappos facets, …
If you are running in AWS environment it might be useful to get Amazon instance_id in Nginx for different purposes (logging, headers etc).
To do that we need to compile Nginx with Perl support (–with-http_perl_module flag during compilation). After that is done we can put this snippet inside of our httpd Nginx config section:
Important: While the Perl module is performing a long-running operation, …
Sometimes it might be useful to add simple permissions layer on top of unprotected HTTP services ( especially if you would like to open those to the public! ). Recently we had to secure our Solrcloud install to be able to provide read only access to our FTS index to a partner, …
Solr in “cloud” mode (solrcloud)
One of the first steps for solrcloud cluster setup is collection configuration preparation. Usually it’s done like this:
-Dbootstrap_confdir=./solr/collection1/conf -Dcollection.configName=myconf
If you start Solr with above attributes, it will load configuration files under ./solr/collection1/conf to Zookeeper with myconf name. …
