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set -e, -u, -o, -x pipefail

The set lines

• These lines deliberately cause your script to fail. Wait, what? Believe me, this is a good thing.
• With these settings, certain common errors will cause the script to immediately fail, explicitly and loudly. Otherwise, you can get hidden bugs that are discovered only when they blow up in production.

• set -euxo pipefail is short for:

set -e
set -u

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# I've used the configuration below for all my nginx instances and gotten an A+ on the Qualys SSL Test 
# (https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/index.html). It satisfies requirements for PCI Compliance and
# FIPS. Includes OCSP Stapling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling) and HTTP Strict Transport
# Security (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security).
# - Not vulnerable to the Heartbleed attack.
# - Not vulnerable to the OpenSSL CCS vulnerability (CVE-2014-0224) with OpenSSL v1.0.1i 6 Aug 2014 & Nginx 1.6.0
# - SSL Handshake takes <80ms on most modern server hardware

# Use within the "server" scope among other directives

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Installing and using Percona XtraBackup

For MySQL/MariaDB database servers on Ubuntu.

Set-up and Install

Add Percona to your repository.

Backup your sources.

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup

Edit your sources.

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Frontend Development

Attention: if you attempt to fork this gist, github will think that you are a spammer and you will have to confirm that you are human with them. Apparantly there are too many links in this list. Also I update it rather frequently (see revisions on the left), so it's probably wise to not fork it anyway.

• Guides
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• Web Development Teaching Materials