I'm going to install the Grid Hub system upon a standard CentOS 6 installation, and then connect it to multiple remote instances, running across a variety of Windows operating systems.

Deploying the Selenium Grid Hub as a Daemon

Configuring & Running the Selenium Grid from CentOS

Recently I've needed to request a new SSL certificate for a website running on IIS6. The existing website has a certificate that I'm looking to replace, but as this was originally generated as a 1024-bit certificate, I cannot prepare a new request for the website through the IIS6 tools - I can only renew it.

Chaining the Supplied Certificate with Intermediate Certificates

Testing the Received Certificate Against the Original Request and Private Key

Building the PKCS#12 File from Certificate & Private Key

Useful Tips: Exporting Certificate & Key from PFX File

Useful Tips: Issuing a Self-Signed Certificate for Development

Using OpenSSL to Request and Install an SSL Certificate

I'm working on some C# project components that I need to run under CentOS6. Mono (http://www.mono-project.com) is an open source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. With Mono installed, many of the .NET features will be available under the CentOS platform.

Configuring Mono for C# on CentOS6 and Nginx

Siege is an http load testing and benchmarking utility. It was designed to let web developers measure their code under duress, to see how it will stand up to load on the internet.

Performance Benchmarking with Siege

CentOS uses a number of different files for networking purposes – this post details the most widely used files for general networking operations.

CentOS6 – Networking Configuration

This series of posts, shows you how you can harness this differentiating capability in your Crownpeak CMS configurations. This post deploys PHP using Crownpeak's SmartLiving reference project.

Implementing DXL Inject® – "The Cuckoo Pattern" - PHP Deployment

In this series of posts, I will show you how you can harness this differentiating capability in your Crownpeak CMS configurations. This first post deploys static HTML using Crownpeak's SmartLiving reference project.

Implementing DXL Inject® – "The Cuckoo Pattern" - Static HTML Deployment

Perhaps a new analogy to describe Crownpeak’s DXL Inject® pattern, likening it to one of the geniuses of nature.

Extending The Life of Existing Digital Touchpoints

DXL Inject® - The “Cuckoo Pattern”?

In this article, I reflect on the challenges and compromises of selecting content management platforms. Amidst this landscape, Preston So's concept of the "Universal CMS" emerges as a beacon of clarity, promising to cater to marketers and technologists seamlessly. Is there a resonance between this visionary idea and my experiences with Crownpeak's Static Hybrid CMS, hinting at a paradigm shift in content management architecture?

The Universal CMS - A Market Paradigm Shift?

This article focuses on the Static CMS Hybrid-Headless architectural pattern and how it can have significant advantages against its similar, but not identical, traditional or monolithic Hybrid-Headless counterpart.

Benefit 1: Content can be delivered to any worldwide location using any technology.

Benefit 2: Separating content management from delivery can reduce the threat landscape.

Benefit 3: Low barrier to entry - developers can use whatever language/framework they choose.

Benefit 4: Architectural flexibility around static or dynamic content for digital experience delivery

Benefits of The Static Hybrid-Headless CMS

In this article, we'll discuss how many CMS vendors have extended their existing platforms to provide two (or more) of the fundamental architectures in an attempt to win the battle to the top.

Combining CMS Architectures (Hybrid-Headless)

The Rise of the Hybrid-Headless CMS Architectures

In this article, we'll discuss the most common types of publishing architectures within the world's content management system (CMS) platforms from a business owner's perspective. We'll explain what each is and highlight the various advantages of each, but we'll also highlight some things to be aware of when you select a particular platform architecture.

Static vs Traditional vs Headless CMS Architectures

At Crownpeak, we built SDKs for the three main SPA frameworks (React, Vue.JS and Angular) to seamlessly "wire up" the SPA to data provided by DXM and to generate all of the DXM configuration required to support the authoring capabilities. The ability to iterate through an application, identify everything required to support the content author, and automatically generate it all (i.e., templates, components, models) saves days of work!

Single Page Application SDKs for Crownpeak DXM

In this post, I will guide you through the steps to deploy a serverless Web Delivery Infrastructure using Amazon Web Services.

What is a Serverless Web Delivery Infrastructure?

How Do I Deploy a Serverless Web Delivery Infrastructure?

Could I manage a Serverless Web Delivery Infrastructure without using CloudFormation?

What are the Steps to Deploy a Serverless Web Delivery Infrastructure, using AWS CloudFormation?

Example CloudFormation Template for Serverless Infrastructure

Using AWS CloudFormation to Deploy a Serverless Web Delivery Infrastructure

A Pair of Lambda@Edge Functions for Executing Common Operations on Request.

A Pair of Lambda@Edge Functions for Executing Common Operations on Request

EdgeServices

A "pre-SDK" method for feeding React applications from Crownpeak DXM.

Crownpeak Digital Experience Management (DXM) - React Basics

Crownpeak DXM greatly reduces the overhead associated with the traditional DTAP environment.

The traditional Development, Testing, Acceptance and Production (DTAP) challenge

Ditching the traditional DTAP with Crownpeak DXM

Crownpeak Digital Experience Management (DXM)’s Decoupled Content Deployment Architecture provides organisations with complete flexibility in what, how and where content is distributed. In today’s modern customer-experience-focussed world, the ability to curate content in a single location, taking advantage of centralised governance while enabling local market flexibility, then deploying this optimised content to the right channel for the customer at the right time, gives global organisations a strategic advantage over their competitors.

A collection of solutions that collectively address the majority of enterprise needs

Crownpeak Digital Experience Layer - The five fundamental patterns

In this post, we will install pre-requisite compilation tools, download & compile version 2.6.16, and install as a service within CentOS.

Installing & Configuring Redis in CentOS 6 - From Source

I have recently had to automate the backup of all databases upon a MySql server, compress, and save to a SMB/CIFS share.

Automating MySql Backups to SMB/CIFS Shares

This post describes installation & configuration of a single node installation, built on-top of CentOS6. It assumes that internet access is available from the OS.

Installing & Configuring Redis in CentOS 6

This guide covers installation, configuration and a number of useful tips for working with Solr (v4.4.0) under Tomcat (v7) on CentOS (v6).

Configuring Solr on Tomcat7 in CentOS6

This post describes installation & configuration of a basic 2-node cluster built on-top of CentOS 6. It assumes that internet access is available from the OS.

Installing & Configuring a RabbitMQ Cluster in CentOS 6

Configuration of ElasticSearch (per node)

Installing & Configuring an ElasticSearch Cluster in CentOS 6

This post describes how to configure CentOS for load balancing via LVS (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/) and Piranha (https://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster/piranha/). It is by no means a debugging guide, but explains the basics.

Posts

Configuring & Running the Selenium Grid from CentOS

Using OpenSSL to Request and Install an SSL Certificate

Configuring Mono for C# on CentOS6 and Nginx

Performance Benchmarking with Siege

CentOS6 – Networking Configuration