Open Source & Developer Tooling
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Open source software that powers real production systems, and the macOS tooling that keeps high-output engineering teams productive.
ESB vs Kafka: Why Microservices Are Replacing Enterprise Buses
1. Introduction The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) once promised to be the silver bullet for enterprise integration. Organizations invested millions in platforms like MuleSoft, IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, and TIBCO BusinessWorks, believing they would solve all their integration challenges. Today, these same organizations are discovering that their ESB has become their biggest architectural […]
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Dublin Traceroute on macOS: Install & Usage Guide
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 →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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Browser curl Wrapper: Bypass Bot Filters, Load Test, and Defeat TLS Fingerprinting
WordPress Plugin Crashed Your Site: Restore From Backup Instead You updated a plugin five minutes ago. Maybe it was a security patch. Maybe you were trying a new caching layer. You clicked “Update Now,” saw the progress bar fill, got the green tick, and moved on with your day. Now the site is down. Not […]
Read more →Scan Your Local Network With Nikto and Nmap on macOS
Nikto is becoming one of my favourite tools. I like it because of its wide ranging use cases and its simplicity. So whats an example use case for Nikto? When I am bored right now and so I am going to hunt around my local network and see what I can find… Now lets pop […]
Read more →curl Command: Get HTTP Response Headers in Terminal
Web devs need to know the http headers their apps/webpages. This can be easily achieved using a browser plugin for Chrome or Firefox. But I prefer to use the command terminal, and curl makes this really easy.
Read more →Enable Apps From Anywhere on Mac: Terminal Command Guide
Previously Macs would allow you to install software from anywhere. Now you will see the error message “NMAPxx.mpkg cannot be opened because its from an unidentified developer“. If you want to fix this and enable apps to be install from anywhere, you will need to run the following command line: Once you have run the […]
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Why TOGAF Fails Modern Enterprise Architecture
You can survive on it for a while. You definitely should not build a mission around it. 1. The analogy nobody asked for, but everyone deserves Potatoes are incredible. They are calorie dense, resilient, cheap, and historically important. They are also completely useless for space travel. No propulsion, no navigation, no life support, no guidance […]
Read more →AWS CLI Setup on Mac: Install and Configure in Minutes
You can absolutely get the following from the AWS help pages; but this is the lazy way to get everything you need for a simple single account setup. Run the two commands below to drop the package on your Mac. Then check the versions you have installed: Next you need to setup your environment. Note: […]
Read more →Linux CD Command Guide: Navigation Tips for Windows Users
Ok, so I am a windows dude and only after docker and K8 came along did I start to get all they hype around Linux. To be fair, Linux is special and I have been blown away with the engineering effort behind this OS (and also glad to leave my book of Daniel Appleman win32 […]
Read more →What Is Minification and How to Test If It Works
1. What is Minification Minification is the process of removing everything from source code that a browser does not need to execute it. This includes whitespace, line breaks, comments, and long variable names. The resulting file is functionally identical to the original but significantly smaller. A CSS file written for human readability might look like […]
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Diagnose Your Linux Server in 60 Seconds: 6 CLI Tools
Imagine you have trauma and could figure out whats causing in under one minute. Obviously, the preference is an observability platform – but for my little wordpress site I don’t really have the budget. So I just use a few tools to isolate common issues. The idea behind this blog is to quickly isolate the […]
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