How to Install Megatools, the Mega.nz Cloud Storage CLI on Ubuntu

Mega.nz, the popular cloud storage service known for its security feature where all files are end-to-end encrypted locally before they are uploaded. This prevents anyone, even employees of Mega… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 4 years ago

How to Use Axios to Make HTTP Requests – Get, Post and Parallel Requests

Almost every web-based application that does anything substantial performs some kind of HTTP requests. In this article, we will be going over a very popular HTTP client for JavaScript called Axios. | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 4 years ago

Top Five Global Public Holidays and Working Days API for Your Next Project

While it might seem very simple, holidays and holiday calculations can be a very complex problem when a lot of countries and regions are involved. In fact, while most countries around the world might… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

How to Install and Configure OpenCV on CentOS 7 for Python

OpenCV which is short for Open Source Computer Vision Library is, just as the name suggests, an open source computer vision library with bindings for multiple programming languages such as C++… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

MySQL Database Performance Optimization Using MySQLTuner on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Databases are generally considered as the main source of performance bottlenecks in most applications. We usually use tricks like caching to get around them. Here, we will be looking at a tool to help… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

How to Use a Private GitHub Repo as a Dependency with Yarn and NPM

One of the really cool, less known and typically forgotten features of NPM and Yarn is the ability to install git repositories directly as part of the package install command. Whether you are working… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

Starting a Cron Monitoring SaaS Side Project

The name of the company is Cronhub and I’m Tigran Hakobyan, the creator of Cronhub. Key Stats Monthly Revenue: $67 Date Started / Years in Business: March 20, 2018, 2 months Location / Homebase: | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

How to Encrypt and Decrypt Files with OpenSSL on Ubuntu and Mac OS X

OpenSSL is an open source library that provides a full-featured toolkit and APIs for secure computer network communication over Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

An Interview with Laurent Pellegrino, Founder of Noticeable.io

I am Laurent, a 30 years old entrepreneur who founded Noticeable, a changelog and newsfeed as a service to help companies to keep their audience updated on what’s new. Before Noticeable… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

Building a $60K/Month Online Lending Business – An Interview with FigLoans CEO

In this post, we talk to Jeffrey Zhou, the Co-Founder and CEO of Fig Loans. Fig Loans provides affordable financial products to borrowers by aligning business model with customer financial health. | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

Building a $30,000/Month User Testing Platform

Hey, I’m Andreas Zhou, one of the co-founders of Askable. We’re an Australian based startup and we’re the “Uber for user testing”. Basically, we help UX designers recruit, manage and pay people for… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

How to Mount S3/Wasabi/DigitalOcean Bucket on CentOS and Ubuntu Using S3FS

In this article, we will be using S3FS to mount cloud storage services locally on a CentOS or Ubuntu box. Mounting them locally will allow us to interact with the cloud providers as a local file… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

How to Use an Ansible Playbook to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04

Configuration management is the new shell scripting and Ansible is one of the easiest to use configuration management systems out there. With computers, if you have to do something more than once, you… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

How to Generate Free Wildcard SSL Certificates with Let’s Encrypt on Ubuntu

With the internet, web and computer security becoming a crucial part of our everyday lives. It has become more important than ever to ensure that you have SSL certificates on your website. Just last… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 5 years ago

How to Install and Use Rancher to Manage Your Docker Applications on Ubuntu

In this guide, we shall be installing Rancher across Ubuntu 18.04 LTS servers. Rancher is a Docker management utility. It is built on top Docker itself, meaning that there’s a docker container inside… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 6 years ago

How to Install Redis on Ubuntu 18.04 and Speed Up WordPress Using Redis Caching

Redis is a very popular fast in-memory data structure storage engine, which is typically used as a database server, cache, and message broker. It is written in the C programming language. It also… | Continue reading


@dotlayer.com | 6 years ago