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Docker has become the method of modern software delivery, but naïve Dockerfiles often produce bloated images that contain build tools, source code, and temporary files. Large images increase attack surface, slow down CI pipelines, and waste bandwidth. Multi‑stage builds solve these problems by allowing you to compile or assemble artifacts in one stage and copy…
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Vision language models such as Ollama, LM Studio, or any OpenAI‑style endpoint accept image data alongside text prompts. This tutorial shows you how to capture an image on a Linux box, encode it for HTTP transmission, and invoke the VLM API using both curl and Python. The examples are deliberately simple so they can be adapted to shell…
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Rate limiting is a core defensive technique for any public‑facing web service. By throttling requests from a single client you can protect upstream resources, mitigate brute force attacks and keep latency predictable. Nginx ships with the limit_req module which makes it easy to enforce request caps based on IP address. This guide walks through a complete setup,…