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Ivan Tomica
Over the course of many complex projects, I have gained proficiency in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable infrastructures. My experience covers optimizing performance, ensuring high availability, and enhancing system security while working with web servers, load balancers, databases, CI/CD pipelines, containers, and serverless technologies.
August 2026
September 2026
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Are you in search for an simple monitoring service that will provide you with status updates for your service and don’t want to pay in gold for it? You also don’t want to maintain your own server with services like Icinga or Nagios? Search no more, here’s updown.io , simple, easy to use yet powerful, tiny monitoring...
If you are, like me, using keyboard for your tab manipulation needs inside Firefox you may find yourself in a same situation where I was. There is serious design flaw with Firefox’s default shortcut for closing the browser. By default Firefox uses key combination Ctrl + q to close the window which is TOO CLOSE to...
It is wise to protect your private SSH keys with a strong password so in case somebody manages to get your private key somehow he will still need password for it to be able to use it and that should hopefully give you enough time to change your keys. When you have password protected private key you need to enter...
There are many reasons why would somebody want to host their own email server. There are many advantages for doing this but there are also many drawbacks. Setting up your own mail server can certainly be a great learning experience filled with discoveries about different set of technologies, protocols and how stuff...
Have you ever wondered where man pages are located and can you include some other folder with man pages? Well since I compile Mutt email client from source I have decided to place it in /opt directory so it won’t interfere with system packages and packages from official repositories. When Mutt is configured with...
Peek is an animated GIF recorder. It basically allows you to record part of your desktop and export it to GIF which is very useful when you need to graphically show something short. This guide will focus on how to install it on your Fedora box. Since there is no prebuilt package you’ll need to build it from source....
I used to use AwesomeWM back when I was still running an Arch Linux. After switching to Fedora I decided to stay with Gnome to try it out. With time I got used to it again, and in matter of fact I found myself liking it a lot. Yesterday I had a conversation with my brother about broad selection of topics regarding...
Rainbowstream is simple command line based Twitter client. If you prefer reading your twitter stream in browser, client like tweetdeck and similar, go ahead, I won’t stop you from doing that. But if you, like me, want to experiment with command line twitter client then this guide will help you set it up in Fedora...
Thing that I miss with Apache on CentOS 7, and in the matter of fact, every SystemD based distribution is running service httpd status and immediately seeing full Apache status along with number of active connections, server uptime etc. This article will focus on how to enable mod_status in Apache 2.4 so you can...
I just conveniently placed referral links for DigitalOcean and Vultr cloud VPS providers in the sidebar of my website and would appreciate if you used those links to sign up for their service if you planned to buy VPS from one of those two. Thank you!
Here’s an article on how to change your current Apache MPM on CentOS 7 machine. Apache version I’m using is Apache 2.4. To check which MPM is currently in use you can run: httpd -V which should print something like: ... Architecture: 64-bit Server MPM: prefork threaded: yes (fixed thread count) forked: yes (variable...
Great article by Jos Poortvliet of NextCloud on how to upgrade to NextCloud 9. I upgraded from ownCloud 8.2 and it worked flawlessly.
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