Introduction The Eloquent ORM included with Laravel provides you with an easy way of interacting with your database. This simplifies all CRUD (Create, read, update, and delete) operations and any other database queries. In some specific cases you mig...

Introduction A fork bomb (also known as a rabbit virus) is a denial-of-service attack that consists of a process that constantly replicates itself to exhaust all available system resources, slowing down or crashing the system due to resource starvati...

Need to get some work done? Let's be productive together! You can use this video as a timer for your Pomodoro sessions. The idea behind the Pomodoro sessions is to separate your tasks into small 25 minute blocks and take 5-minute breaks after each s...

Introduction In Unix systems, the shell is a command-line interpreter. It provides a command-line user interface (CLI). The shell is a scripting language that you could use to write scripts like any other programming language and it is also an intera...

This is an open-source introduction to SQL guide that will help you learn the basics of SQL and start using relational databases for your SysOps, DevOps, and Dev projects. No matter if you are a DevOps/SysOps engineer, developer, or just a Linux enth...

Introduction Hello everybody! Welcome to this Introduction to Git and GitHub video series, where you will learn the basics of Git and start using it for your day-to-day tasks. My name is Bobby and I've been working as a Linux system administrator for...

Introduction The other day, I was setting up a local development environment for an existing project when I encountered the 'Please provide a valid cache path' error. As the error itself is not very descriptive and could leave you thinking that somet...

Introduction If you have some experience with Linux, you are probably quite familiar with environment variables. In Linux, you could check the available environment variables with the printenv command. A way to define environment variables in Linux w...

Introduction Composer is without the go to dependency manager for PHP. Composer is a command line tool that you can use to install packages to your projects and also update and manage existing packages. If you are coming the JavaScript world you coul...

Introduction Software-as-a-Service, or SaaS for short, in most cases, is a platform that provides a specific service on a monthly or yearly subscription plan. Popular SaaS products are Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, and Slack. They all offer a specific s...