Tag: linux

  • SASL Authentication Mechanisms

    Introduction Authentication is used in many protocols (such as LDAP binding) and it usually involves sending password. Given the nature of authentication protocol, its traffic…

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  • Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

    Introduction Originally LDAP only refers to the connectivity protocol to the directory server. This term is being used loosely today and it also refers to…

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  • Introduction to Active Directory (AD)

    Workgroup, homegroup and Windows Domain A workgroup is a group of computers on the same local network. A Windows computer not joined to a domain…

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  • High Availability and Load Balancer

    Overview Fault tolerance and high availability are two architectural characteristics that people often confuse with each other. High availability focuses on minimizing downtime. It guarantees…

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  • Nginx as a reverse proxy for Nifi web UI and Kibana

    Nginx can act as a application neutral proxy. One example is to front Nifi. The nifi default configuration provides an HTTP access point, specified in…

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  • Clean up Git repository

    A BitBucket repo has a hard limit of 2GB in size, and soft limit of 1GB. This is not expandable as per Bitbucket and contributors will start receiving…

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