Facebook was down. I’d recommend reading Cloudflare’s summary. Then I recommend reading Facebook’s own account on the incident. But let me expand on that. Facebook published announcements and withdrawals forContinue reading
Today I read a very interesting article about the prominence of Bulgarian hackers (in the black-hat sense) and virus authors in the 90s, linking that to the focus on technicalContinue reading
Spring Integration is a very powerful and extensible framework for, well, integrations. But sometimes it’s not trivial how to get some information that yo need. In my case – aContinue reading
We’ve all used dozens of serialization frameworks – for JSON, XML, binary, and ORMs (which are effectively serialization frameworks for relational databases). And there’s always the moment when you needContinue reading
That won’t be a typical publication you’d see on a developer’s blog. But yes, I’m running for parliament (in my country, Bulgaria, an EU member). And judging by the currentContinue reading
Syslog. You’ve probably heard about that, especially if you are into monitoring or security. Syslog is perceived to be the common, unified way that systems can send logs to otherContinue reading
Developers are constantly discussing and even fighting about text editors and IDEs. Which one is better, why is it better, what’s the philosophy behind one or the other, which oneContinue reading
As a founder of a security company, I’m constantly looking for open source tools to either incorporate in our offering, or get inspiration from, or provide integration with. And thereContinue reading
Our software tends to use a lot of thread pools – mostly through java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService implementations (Created via Executors.new…. We create these for various async use-cases, and they can be seenContinue reading
When you use the managed Elasticsearch service on AWS, you usually choose an encrypted connection (via KMS-managed keys), which means you can’t use just any tool to connect to yourContinue reading