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Create a free go-link server “on edge” using Cloudflare Worker KV

Khaled Monsoor — Sun, 06 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0600

Among quite a few ways to implement a go-link server (i.e., url-forwarder, short-url server, etc.), I will show how to use free-tier Cloudflare Worker (& KV) to create an in-house, on-edge, no-webserver go-link server.

TL;DR what cloud provider to use in 2021

Khaled Monsoor — Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0600

Among the thousands of combinations a company can take to choose from the cloud providers and their products, this is my TL;DR suggestion

Deploying a short-link aka go-link server using only Caddyserver

Khaled Monsoor — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0600

Yeah, there are tons of open-source, full-fledged link-shorteners. But, none were exactly what I wanted. Hence, the minimal approach only by utilizing an amazing webserver, Caddy. Here we go …

Pimping up My Linux Terminal

Khaled Monsoor — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0600

How do I pimp up my Linux terminal? A quick trip through Zsh, Oh-my-zsh, and other power tools to make the command-line-based workflow smooth and cool.

Install the latest Zsh on CentOS

Khaled Monsoor — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0600

If you’re trying to install the latest version of Zsh instead of the default old one, here you go.

What I learned managing weekly release of a 50M+ users’ app

Khaled Monsoor — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 12:12:00 +0600

In any war, game, or enterprise resource management, the last thing you want is to underestimate your opponent(s). In release management, the opponent is “chaos”. The last thing a release manager should expect is that everything, from bug-free features to timely completion of production builds will be done as per the cadence schedule.

Install latest Python 3 on Linux CentOS 7

Khaled Monsoor — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0600

Install the latest and greatest Python 3 on CentOS 7 systems

HA(High-Availability) Setup for InfluxDB

Khaled Monsoor — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0600

Create a robust, highly-available, time-series InfluxDB cluster with the community(free) version of it

Pelican Static sites - SEO Optimization

Khaled Monsoor — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0600

Usually Pelican static-site generator is not very concerned about SEO of the generated site. Related themes and their templates also don’t take it much seriously. But you shouldn’t loose SEO, right?

Ubuntu - Update APT-GET Server to Use Fastest Mirror

Khaled Monsoor — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0600

Updating Ubuntu from it’s default server takes too damn long. Give it a 10x boost.