I have started writing production code again. Not prototypes. Not proofs of concept. Real systems. Real risk. Real consequences. At Capitec, a very small group of engineers is now tackling…
Read more →Why More Information Doesn’t Mean More Understanding We’ve all heard the mantra: data is the new oil. It’s become the rallying cry of digital transformation programmes, investor pitches, and boardroom…
Read more →1. Technology Is an Infinite Game and That Is the Point Technology has no finish line. There is no end state, no final architecture, no moment where you can stand…
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Read more →Modern networks are far more complex than the simple point to point paths of the early internet. Equal Cost Multi Path (ECMP) routing, carrier grade NAT, and load balancing mean that packets from your machine to a destination might traverse entirely different network paths depending on flow hashing algorithms. Traditional traceroute tools simply cannot handle […]
Read more →Ever wondered how to adjust the time window before your Mac demands a password again after using Touch ID? Here’s how to configure these settings from the terminal. Screen Lock Password Delay The most common scenario is controlling how long after your screen locks before a password is required. This setting determines whether Touch ID […]
Read more →Disaster recovery is one of the most comforting practices in enterprise technology and one of the least honest. Organisations spend significant time and money designing DR strategies, running carefully choreographed…
Read more →When something is “slow” on a network, opinions arrive before evidence. Storage teams blame the network, network teams blame the application, and application teams blame “the cloud”.☁️ iperf3 cuts through that noise by giving you hard, repeatable, protocol-level facts about throughput, latency behavior, and packet loss. This post explains what iperf3 actually measures, how it […]
Read more →The in memory data store landscape fractured in March 2024 when Redis Inc abandoned its BSD 3-clause licence in favour of the dual RSALv2/SSPLv1 model. The community response was swift…
Read more →PostgreSQL 18: A Grown-Up Release for Serious Workloads Introduction Every few years PostgreSQL delivers a release that does not just add features, but quietly shifts what the database is capable…
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