Securely changing system configuration from a web application

I need to write a web application that acts as a configuration interface for some system services. Meaning it will probably change some kind of configuration file and has to restart (linux) system services.

Python in Big Data?

Can python be efficiently implemented in big data field? To be precise I am building an web app that analyses really big data in medical health care field consisting of medical history and huge personal information. I need some advice on how to handle very big data in python efficiently and with high performance. Also are their some open source packages in python available which have high performance and efficiency in big data handling?

How do you handle multiple users editing the same piece of data in a webapp?

There’s a project I’m working on that is looking to produce a web application that will manage a task list between multiple users. This is a master task list whose task items get distributed by an authorized user. Each user has his/her own account to login and view the tasks they are assigned; it is possible for multiple users to have a single task in-common.

When creating an api should I stick with small functions and many calls, or a few calls and large functions?

I have a rails platform that I maintain. It has a lot of different web applications built on top of it. However now a client is asking for an API so that they can keep users on their site, but take advantage of some of the automated tasks we have.

How do we structure our JavaScript so that it is easily editable, testable, and can make calls to render a view without knowing specifics about it?

I am working on a web application that displays some data and uses JavaScript.

Custom templating in a web application

I want to understand the pros and cons in generating dynamic web application controls.

Possible with PHP MVC Framework? A better solution to client ‘override’ of core functionality?

Background / The Problem

Does this situation call for well specified associations, single table inheritance, or polymorphic association?

I’m building a web-app where users can keep track of who owes whom money.

Feasibility of continuous delivery with a mixture of development platforms

What are the major obstacles (and potential solutions, if known) for implementing “continuous delivery” software development when an application relies on varied programming languages or modules… especially when the same version-control and/or automated testing packages do not exist for those disparate platforms?

What is a practical level of abstraction in a web application? [closed]

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