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Shawn Brito

I'm guy searching for amazing new things to do, adventures to go on. Travelling across Sri Lanka and Video Blogging.
Shawn Brito has written 9 posts for Ceylon IT Ambalama

ELK Configuration

Installation- Quick Configuration In order to install the LogStash quickly, we need to Download LogStash, ElasticSearch, Kibana and Java8. The broker module (Redis) will not be used. Download the following RPMs from the ElasticSearch website. The LogStash, ElasticSearch, Kibana are found on the same website.. LogStash (v6.2.3 as of this writing) ElasticSearch (v6.2.3 as of … Continue reading

Send HTML Alert Mails

This article describes the plugin that send Nagios HTML Alert Emails with Performance Graphs. This is the Version 3 of the popular ‘Send HTML Alert Email’. Nagios Alert eMails now contain formatted Text & Performance Graphs which is much smaller saving you bandwidth. Tested with Nagios v3 & 4. This may not work with Nagios … Continue reading

Too Many TCP Connections?

Are you having trouble with High Traffic websites?. Or too many TCP Connections been made to too many services?. Surprisingly you don’t need to have high traffic to your website to get TCP Timeout connections from random services. During the good old days we used simple Apache Tomcat + MySQL, and never dreamt of fine-tuning … Continue reading

DIA – The Diagram Editor

Introduction During the past few years of designing diagrams using Visio, I was introduced to “Dia – Diagramming” software which initially looked horribly ugly to begin with.. However over the years of being addicted to Ubuntu/Linux the need to master my skills at DIA grew along with my appetite to draw better/professional diagrams that explained … Continue reading

Load Balancing Everything

As a Technology Centred System Architect, I am constantly looking ahead at distributing data across multiple geographic location in order to improve the performance of the system.. Over the past 7 years, I have been pushing my limits on Load-Balancing via distributed systems.. Some of the sub-systems were in turn Re-Load-Balanced to provide optimum performance … Continue reading

Reduce Employee Turnover

Over the years of working in multiple IT companies, there’s one thing that remains constant – “Month end farewell parties”.. There are a few things that can be done to reduce the staff turnover. As employees work over time, they accumulate knowledge(domain knowledge) and wisdom which is used to accelerate the progress of the company. … Continue reading

Boost Apache Performance On Windows

Although this might be mind boggling to some, Apache can be tuned to a point where it almost equals the Linux/Unix performance.. Many years and much grey hair has gone into this article – and I hope you will reap a bountiful harvest from Apache On Windows. Let’s first begin with the Binding IP Address. … Continue reading

10 Android Apps For Sri Lankan Explorers

Going through the thousands of apps in the Android Market place, one would astonished to find so many adventure applications available for free. I have listed down a few applications that would help you get out of a sticky swamp in Sri Lanka.. I will first start off by prepping you with the basics of … Continue reading

IT for KIDS

It’s been a while since I read something fanciful about the growing IT community in Sri Lanka, Even though there is great success in the general direction of advancements, rural zones still lack much of the infrastructure we find in the rural suburbs of Colombo.. After traveling a few miles through the Ampara and Baticalloa … Continue reading