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The Software Developer's Guide to Linux

You're reading from   The Software Developer's Guide to Linux A practical, no-nonsense guide to using the Linux command line and utilities as a software developer

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804616925
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Christian Sturm Christian Sturm
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David Cohen David Cohen
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. How the Command Line Works 2. Working with Processes FREE CHAPTER 3. Service Management with systemd 4. Using Shell History 5. Introducing Files 6. Editing Files on the Command Line 7. Users and Groups 8. Ownership and Permissions 9. Managing Installed Software 10. Configuring Software 11. Pipes and Redirection 12. Automating Tasks with Shell Scripts 13. Secure Remote Access with SSH 14. Version Control with Git 15. Containerizing Applications with Docker 16. Monitoring Application Logs 17. Load Balancing and HTTP 18. Other Books You May Enjoy
19. Index

Load Balancing and HTTP

We’re going to take a slightly different approach with this chapter, so buckle up. On the one hand, we’re going to review some background on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and focus on some misconceptions that trip up many web developers in the real world.

On the other hand, we’re going to keep this practical and cover one of the most powerful standard HTTP tools that’s available on the command line, curl. Specifically, we’re going to teach you the basics of curl in the context of how you can use it to troubleshoot common web application issues.

We assume that if you’re a web developer, you already know your way around HTTP. So, while the goal of this chapter is not to teach you the absolute basics of this protocol, we are going to review some of those basics to get you up to speed if it’s been a while. If you are totally new to HTTP, there is lots of excellent documentation on the web that you...

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