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Google Published 25 Million Free Datasets

Google Published 25 Million Free Datasets

Google recently released dataset search, a free tool for searching 25 million publicly available datasets. The search tool includes filters to limit results based on their license (free or paid), format (csv, images, etc), and update time.

The results also include descriptions of the dataset’s contents as well as author citations.

Google’s dataset aggregation methodology differs from other…

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How to Prepare for AZ-103 Microsoft Azure Administrator Exam?

How to Prepare for AZ-103 Microsoft Azure Administrator Exam?

Cloudis the platform of the future, and with every passing day, an increasing number of organizations are trying to get their share of cloud-based advantages. You could be an IT professional, a manager or the owner of an organization. Irrespective of your title, if you are well-informed, competitive and development-oriented, it’s unlikely that you would get into a debate on the relevance of cloud.

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20+ Commonly Asked Questions about Azure Certification - FAQ

20+ Commonly Asked Questions about Azure Certification – FAQ

Over the past few months, I received many queries from the readers of my blog regarding preparations for the Azure Certification exam. I compiled this post (Azure Certification FAQs) with all the questions I received. Make sure to go through them before you begin your preparation.

I will update this post as and when I receive unique questions.

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5 Quick and Easy Data Visualizations using Matplotlib

5 Quick and Easy Data Visualizations using Matplotlib

Data Visualization is a big part of a data scientist’s jobs. In the early stages of a project, you’ll often be doing an Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to gain some insights into your data. Creating visualizations really helps make things clearer and easier to understand, especially with larger, high dimensional datasets.

Towards the end of your project, it’s important to be able to present your…

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How to Set up a Postfix Mail Server With Dovecot and RoundCube on CentOS 7

How to Set up a Postfix Mail Server With Dovecot and RoundCube on CentOS 7

This tutorial features Postfix as an SMTP server, Dovecot for POP/IMAP functionality, and RoundCube as a webmail program for users to check and receive email from a web browser.

The tutorial will also walk you through the process of creating and using a self-signed SSL certificate for use in securing incoming and outgoing email connections.

Requirements

A Cloud Server running CentOS 7.

Postfix…

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What the difference between REST API and RESTful API?

What the difference between REST API and RESTful API?

The short answer is that REST stands for Representational State Transfer. It’s an architectural pattern for creating web services. A RESTful service is one that implements that pattern.

The long answer starts with “sort of” and “it depends” and continues with more complete definitions.

Defining REST

Let’s start by defining what REST is and is not. For some, REST means a server that exchanges JSON…

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How to Install Docker CE and Docker-Compose on CentOS 8

How to Install Docker CE and Docker-Compose on CentOS 8

Docker is a set of Platform as a Service (PaaS) products that uses operating system level virtualizations to deliver software in the form of containers. Docker CE (Community Edition) is the strip down version of Docker EE (Enterprise Edition). Docker CE is free and open source and distributed under Apache License 2.0.

In Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 / CentOS 8, Support of Docker has been…

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20+ Top Server Management and Monitoring Tools

20+ Top Server Management and Monitoring Tools

Enterprises run multiple servers to deliver business critical services for their end users. Some of them include database servers, core app servers, caching servers, web servers, and more. Performance of each of these servers are critical because even if one of the servers fail, then it impacts the delivery of business critical services.

Therefore it is imperative to know any performance issues…

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How To Install PHP 7.3 On RHEL 8

How To Install PHP 7.3 On RHEL 8

PHP is an open-source programming language widely for web development, created by Rasmus Lerdorf. It is an HTML-embedded scripting language for creating dynamic web sites.

RHEL 8 comes with PHP v7.2 by default.

In this post, we will see how to install PHP 7.3 on RHEL 8.

Add Remi Repository on RHEL 8

Remi, a third-party repository which offers multiple versions of PHP (7.4 / 7.3 / 7.2) for Red Hat…

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How To Install NextCloud - File Sharing Application On CentOS 7

How To Install NextCloud – File Sharing Application On CentOS 7

Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file share and collaboration platform, similar to Dropbox. It comes bundled with media player, calendar and contact management. Nextcloud is extensible via apps and has desktop and mobile clients for all major platforms.

In this tutorial, we are installing NextCloud on CentOS 7. To configure NextCloud File Sharing Application, we will install Apache, PHP &…

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How to Install Zimbra Mail Server on CentOS 7

How to Install Zimbra Mail Server on CentOS 7

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) is a collaborative software suite that includes a mail & chat server with a web client. Zimbra is developed and maintained by Synacor. Zimbra is available in two editions one as Zimbra Network Edition (Commercial version) and the other as Zimbra Open Source Edition (Community supported version).

In this tutorial, we are installing Zimbra Mail Server on CentOS 7.…

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How to Install ClamAV on CentOS 7

How to Install ClamAV on CentOS 7

ClamAV is an open source antivirus tool. Its basic usage is for detecting viruses, malware, and malicious software on Linux-based machines. The threat from viruses, Trojans, and other forms of malware is real. They have grown exponentially in both quantity and in sophistication, and antivirus software have had to adopt sophisticated detection methods.

While there’s no guarantee that your system…

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How to Install Kubernetes on Ubuntu 18?

How to Install Kubernetes on Ubuntu 18?

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration tool developed by Google. In this article, you will learn how to set up Kubernetes with a master node and a worker node. Make sure you have Docker installed on both master and worker node.

Environment Details and Setup

For the demonstration, I have 2 Ubuntu systems, one will be the master node, and the other one will be the worker node. Both…

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Microsoft SQL Server - Notes for Professionals - eBook

Microsoft SQL Server – Notes for Professionals – eBook

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which may run either on the same computer or on another computer across a network.

Get the most from your database system—breakthrough in-memory performance,…

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How to Pass Microsoft Azure AZ-900 Exam in 3 days

How to Pass Microsoft Azure AZ-900 Exam in 3 days

Microsoft Azure AZ-900 is the exam that test on foundation level knowledge of cloud concepts and Azure services. Those who have experiences in other major cloud providers might find the most of AZ-900 materials to be very similar to they have learned.

I found the content of this exam to be very beneficial for anyone who would like to break in cloud computing on Azure.

Also Read: What is Microsoft…

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How To Run Your First AWS Lambda function in the cloud

How To Run Your First AWS Lambda function in the cloud

Technically, the servers are still there. You just don’t need to manage them anymore. Another advantage of going serverless is that you no longer need to keep a server running all the time. The “server” suddenly appears when you need it, then disappears when you’re done with it. Now you can think in terms of functions instead of servers, and all your business logic can now live within these…

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Why do we need to get AWS Certifications?

Why do we need to get AWS Certifications?

As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise. This shift requires a new set of skills to design, deploy, and manage applications in cloud computing.

As the market leader and most mature provider in the cloud computing space, AWS is considered a thought leader and point of reference for all of…

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