Digital Transformation and Technological Utopianism
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
Obtaining TLS Client Certificates In Spring Integration
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
Every Serialization Framework Should Have Its Own Transient Annotation
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
A Developer Running For Parliament
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
The Syslog Hell
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 Obsessed With Their Text Editors
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
List of Open Source Security Tools
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
Always Name Your Thread Pools
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
Connecting to Kibana Within an AWS VPC
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
Elasticsearch – Scalability and Multitenancy [slides]
Last week I gave a talk in a local tech group about my experience with Elasticsearch at LogSentinel, and how we achieve multitenancy and scalability. Obviously, the topic of scalabilityContinue reading