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Various search databases and backends as alternatives to Elasticsearch.

Rust

Sonic - github.com/valeriansaliou/sonic - lightweight & schema-less search backend
Tantivy - github.com/quickwit-oss/tantivy - full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene
Toshi - github.com/toshi-search/Toshi - search engine built on top of Tantivy
Bayard - github.com/mosuka/bayard - search engine built on top of Tantivy
Meilisearch - github.com/meilisearch/meilisearch - fast and full-featured search engine

Permanent WSL DNS Fix (WSL 2.2.1+)

If you're encountering ping github.com failing inside WSL with a Temporary failure in name resolution, you're not alone — this has been a long-standing issue, especially when using VPNs or corporate networks.

This issue is now fixed robustly with DNS tunneling, which preserves dynamic DNS behavior and avoids limitations like WSL’s former hard cap of 3 DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf.

DNS tunneling is enabled by default in WSL version 2.2.1 and later, meaning that if you're still seeing DNS resolution issues, the first and most effective fix is simply to upgrade WSL. Upgrading WSL updates the WSL platform itself, but does not affect your installed Linux distributions, apps, or files.

To upgrade WSL, follow these steps,

DevCamper Backend API Specifications

Create the backend for a bootcamp directory website. The frontend/UI will be created by another team (future course). The html/css template has been created and can be used as a reference for functionality. All of the functionality below needs to be fully implmented in this project.

Bootcamps

List all bootcamps in the database
- Pagination
- Select specific fields in result
- Limit number of results

Filter by fields

MongoDB Cheat Sheet

Show All Databases

show dbs

Show Current Database

Wordpress & Docker

This file will setup Wordpress, MySQL & PHPMyAdmin with a single command. Add the code below to a file called "docker-compose.yaml" and run the command

$ docker-compose up -d

# To Tear Down
$ docker-compose down --volumes

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import subprocess
	import json
	import os
	from pathlib import Path

	import requests
	from requests.compat import urljoin

	/**
	* This is a proof-of-concept for using ffmpeg as a HTTP video stream proxy
	* that can reduce ad volume.
	*
	* It only works on streams containing SCTE35 data packets.
	* You can check a stream using:
	*
	* ffmpeg -hide_banner -i <SOURCE_URL> 2>&1 \| grep scte_35
	*
	* Start the demo:

	<#
	.SYNOPSIS
	Script to Initialize my custom powershell setup.
	.DESCRIPTION
	Script uses scoop
	.NOTES
	NOTE Will configure the Execution Policy for the "CurrentUser" to Unrestricted.

	Author: Mike Pruett
	Date: October 18th, 2018