In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how to install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu. What is Apache Kafka? Apache Kafka is an open-source stream-processing software platform developed by LinkedIn and donated to Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java. In simple terms, Kafka is a messaging system that is designed to be fast,
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In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how to change the user password in Linux. The instructions given below can work on any Linux distribution. The passwd command is used to update or change the user’s authentication token. There are two types of users; normal users, and the root user. The normal user can
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The Linux which command is used to identify the path of executable files. The path is identified by searching it in the path environment variables. Syntax of Linux which is as follows: What is the PATH variable? PATH is an environment variable in Linux and other Unix-like operating systems that tells the shell which directories
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Find command is used to filter objects in the file system. It can be used to find files, directories, files of particular pattern i.e. txt,.php and so on. It can search by file name, folder name, modification date , by permissions and so on. Note: Linux is case sensitive. “File”,”file”,”FiLe”,”FILE” all are different file names
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A DNS cache (sometimes called a DNS resolver cache) is a temporary database, maintained by a computer’s operating system, that contains records of all the recent visits and attempted visits to websites and other internet domains. You may want to sometimes clear your DNS Cache, especially if you give access permission to another person, or
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There are multiple ways of setting hostname in Debian or Linux system. You can temporarily change the hostname, or permanently apply the changes to a system. Let’s go over these methods. Setting hostname temporarily Let’s start with the temporary and simple method. The hostname command in Debian allows you to set up the system hostname
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CouchDB is a free and open-source fault-tolerant database made and maintained by the Apache Software Foundation. It is a very good choice for a NoSQL type database, where you do not want a relational database. In this tutorial, we shall see how to configure and install the latest version of CouchDB from the Command-Line. Step
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As a programmer, you’ll need to make use of the git for your code versioning needs very often. And if you’re writing code in a collaborative environment, Git will take care of a majority of the work in code collaboration. Its focus is on helping code version control in a distributed setting, track changes made
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The hosts’ file is an extremely useful albeit small text file that stores host names with associated IP addresses. It is basically a mapping from hostnames to IP addresses. Any network protocol uses this mapping to convert hostnames to numeric IP addresses. The mapping is because the Network Layer does not work with the hostnames.
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The Debian repository already has a VirtualBox package for us to directly install on our systems. But it’s a version older than the latest official release. As of this writing, the version available in the apt sources is 5.2, while the latest one is version 6.1. So let’s see how we can go about installing
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