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Cyber 25 Feb 2021 👁 11 views

SYN Flood Testing with hping3: A Practical Guide

Getting an application knocked out with a simple SYN flood is both embarrassing and avoidable. Its also very easy to create a SYN flood and so its something you should design against. Below is the hping3 command line that I use to test my services against SYN floods. I have used quite a few mods, […]

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Corporate Culture 29 Jan 2021 👁 7 views

The Triplication Paradigm: Why Removing Duplication Fails

Introduction In most large corporates technology will typically report into either finance or operations. This means that it will tend to be subject to cultural inheritance, which is not always a good thing. One example of where the cultural default should be challenged is when managing IP duplication. In finance or operations duplication rarely yields any benefits […]

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AWS Cloud 28 Jan 2021 👁 13 views

Public Cloud Migration: Why Lift-and-Shift Strategies Fail

The cloud is hot…. not just a little hot, but smokin hot!! Covid is messing with the economy, customers are battling financially, the macro economic outlook is problematic, vendor costs are high and climbing and security needs more investment every year. What on earth do we do??!! I know…. lets start a crusade – lets […]

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Networking 22 Jan 2021 👁 6 views

K8GB: Cloud Native GSLB for Kubernetes Explained

Today I am a happy bunny!!!! Yury Tsarev (a very clever dude) did a presentation to one of the Kubernetes co-founders Tim Hockin. The demo was one of absa banks opensource projects called K8GB (a cloud native GSLB for K8s): https://www.k8gb.io/ Why do I like K8GB? Because it uses a single CRD that integrates to […]

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Technology 22 Jan 2021 👁 45 views

Windows 10: Fix Flashing Desktop Icons in 3 Steps

Just popping this here as I have had this a few times. Have you ever had your desktop icons flash and if you check explorer.exe its using high CPU. If so try: Step 1. Delete the Icon Cache Save the following as a batch file on your desktop and run it as admin: Step 2. […]

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