Within the previous PM2 post, we introduced the utility and touched some of its capabilities. This articles moves on to the core of PM2: process management. We show you how to list running process, start and restart new process as well as stop and delete running app servers to shut …

We’re huge fans of Node.js and NPM. Especially, hapi has taken a place in our hearts for the category of Node.js frameworks. And since Node ships with NPM (node package manager) by default, there are multiple tips, tricks and shortcuts which will save you time doing repetitive …

Back in May 2015 we updated our server setup and started to use a bunch of new tools to avoid server administration headaches. We mostly rely on Node.js apps (Ghost, our homepage is built on hapi, Strider) and wanted a reliable process manager to keep started servers alive. We …

Retrofit is a great HTTP client for Android (and Java) and the second major release will be available by the end of 2015. We already published an extensive series on Retrofit in the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. Due to the popularity of this series, we decided to …

Within the previous post on how to use nginx load balancing, we showed you the required nginx configuration to pass traffic to a group of available servers. This week, we dive into the advanced nginx configuration like load balancing methods, setting server weights, and health checks. {{outline}} Load Balancing Mechanisms …

Load balancing a great method to reduce latency, improve resource utilization and ultimately increase fault-tolerance. If you already use nginx as a reverse proxy, you can easily update your configuration to enable load balancing functionality for your application. This guide shows you how to configure nginx to forward requests to …

Handlebars is a great templating language with partial view support. It’s highly extensible and adjustable with custom helper functions to add individual features if required. If you’ve ever worked with the Jade templating engine, you probably know and used the block feature which adds a placeholder into your …

There will be a new tutorial showing this functionality in hapi v17 This tutorial is targeted to hapi until v16. Because hapi v17 removes the feature to have multiple connections on a server, you need to create individual hapi servers for frontend and backend. Both have their own connection settings. …