Category: Networking + Technology + Internet
iperf3: The Engineer’s Swiss Army Knife for Network Performance Testing
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 →Create / Migrate WordPress to AWS Graviton: Maximum Performance, Minimum Cost
Running WordPress on ARM-based Graviton instances delivers up to 40% better price-performance compared to x86 equivalents. This guide provides production-ready scripts to deploy an optimised WordPress stack in minutes, plus everything you need to migrate your existing site. Why Graviton for WordPress? Graviton3 processors deliver: The t4g.small instance (2 vCPU, 2GB RAM) at ~$12/month handles […]
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Why Rubrik’s Architecture Matters: When Restore, Not Backup, Is the Product
1. Backups Should Be Boring (and That Is the Point) Backups are boring. They should be boring. A backup system that generates excitement is usually signalling failure. The only time backups become interesting is when they are missing, and that interest level is lethal. Emergency bridges. Frozen change windows. Executive escalation. Media briefings. Regulatory apology […]
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The Salesforce Reckoning: How AI Democratisation Is Dismantling the Enterprise Platform Moat
When a $3 API call can replace a $165 per user per month platform, the financial mathematics of enterprise software fundamentally change. 1. The New Economics of Customer Engagement Something fundamental shifted in 2024. The capabilities that once justified six and seven figure enterprise software contracts became commoditised overnight. Not gradually, through slow competitive erosion, […]
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The Death of the Enterprise Service Bus: Why Kafka and Microservices Are Winning
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 […]
Read more →Model Context Protocol: A Comprehensive Guide for Enterprise Implementation
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a fundamental shift in how we integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) with external data sources and tools. As enterprises increasingly adopt AI powered applications, understanding MCP’s architecture, operational characteristics, and practical implementation becomes critical for technical leaders building production systems. 1. What is Model Context Protocol? Model Context Protocol […]
Read more →Testing Maximum HTTP/2 Concurrent Streams for Your Website
1. Introduction Understanding and testing your server’s maximum concurrent stream configuration is critical for both performance tuning and security hardening against HTTP/2 attacks. This guide provides comprehensive tools and techniques to test the SETTINGS_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS parameter on your web servers. This article complements our previous guide on Testing Your Website for HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Vulnerabilities from […]
Read more →Testing Your Website for HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Vulnerabilities from a macOS
Introduction In August 2023, a critical zero day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol was disclosed that affected virtually every HTTP/2 capable web server and proxy. Known as HTTP/2 Rapid Reset (CVE 2023 44487), this vulnerability enabled attackers to launch devastating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks with minimal resources. Google reported mitigating the largest DDoS […]
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Why Bigger Banks Were Historically More Fragile and Why Architecture Determines Resilience
1. Size Was Once Mistaken for Stability For most of modern banking history, stability was assumed to increase with size. The thinking was the bigger you are, the more you should care, the more resources you can apply to problems. Larger banks had more capital, more infrastructure, and more people. In a pre-cloud world, this […]
Read more →Comparing OSPF to Human Workload Resolution
1. Introduction In networking, OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) is a routing protocol that ensures traffic flows along the shortest and lowest cost path through a network. It does not care about hierarchy, seniority, or intent. It routes based on capability, cost, and reliability. Modern engineering organisations behave in exactly the same way, whether they […]
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