When Your Index Becomes the Bottleneck: Tales of Database Anti-Patterns in the Wild
Let's kick things off with a classic blunder: the "index all the things" approach. It's a tempting strategy, isn't it? If one index speeds things up, surely ten...
Automating Large-Scale Code Reviews with Gerrit and Custom Hooks: A Developer's Guide to Sanity
First things first, let's talk about Gerrit. If you haven't heard of it, Gerrit is like that cool kid in school who always had the latest gadgets – except in this case, the...
NixOS: Your Key to Reproducible Development Environments
NixOS isn't just another Linux distro. It's a paradigm shift in how we think about system configuration and package management. At its core, NixOS is built on the Nix package manager, which...
Inside Windows Memory Management
The Memory Maze: An Overview Before we plunge into the nitty-gritty of page tables, let's set the stage with a quick refresher on Windows memory management: * Virtual memory: The illusion of unlimited memory * Physical...
Diving Deep: Low-Level USB Communication on Linux
Let's take a moment to appreciate the Linux USB stack. It's like a well-oiled machine, with multiple layers working in harmony: * USB Core: The heart of USB operations * Host Controller Drivers: Think...
Taming the Wild West of Internal PKI with step-ca
step-ca is an open-source tool that lets you set up your own lightweight Certificate Authority (CA) faster than you can say "HTTPS everywhere". Why bother with a local CA? * No more self-signed certificate warnings...
Disk Surgery 101: Resurrecting Your Partitions from the Dead
TL;DR: Partition Table Resurrection Kit We'll be exploring: * The anatomy of MBR and GPT partition tables * Tools for inspecting and repairing partition tables * Step-by-step guide to manually restoring partition information * Tips to avoid...
Keycloak Under the Hood: Customizing the Auth Beast
Today, we're going to pop the hood on Keycloak and get our hands dirty with custom mappings, extensions, and integrations. Buckle up, because this ride is about to get wild! TL;DR We'...
Unlocking Hidden Power: Rare x86 Opcodes for Performance Wizardry
Welcome to the world of rare x86 opcodes - the hidden gems of instruction set architecture that can give your code that extra boost when you need it most. Today, we're diving deep into...
Sed and Awk: The Dynamic Duo for On-the-Fly Config Generation
Sometimes you need a lightweight, dependency-free solution that works across any Unix-like system. That's where sed and awk shine: * They're available on virtually every Unix-like system * No need for additional installations or...
Kaniko: Building Docker Images Without Breaking a Sweat (or Your Security)
Kaniko is a tool that builds container images from a Dockerfile, inside a container or Kubernetes cluster, without depending on a Docker daemon. Yeah, you heard that right - no Docker daemon required. It's...
Digging into the Guts of ELF: Extracting Symbolic Information for Fun and Profit
Here's a quick rundown of what we'll cover: * Understanding ELF file structure and symbol tables * Tools of the trade for symbol extraction * Practical techniques for recovering debug data * Navigating section headers and...
Celery + RabbitMQ: Your Secret Weapon for Rapid Prototyping
A quick break down our star players: * Celery: A distributed task queue that makes handling asynchronous tasks a breeze. * RabbitMQ: A robust message broker that ensures our tasks hop from service to service like a caffeinated...
DIY Git Server: Bare Bones and Beautiful
We're going to set up a bare-bones Git server using SSH, git-shell, and minimal scripting. It's like building a treehouse for your code – simple, functional, and totally yours. Why Go Bare Bones?...
Discovering Nuxt 3: The Vue.js Framework on Steroids
Nuxt 3 isn't just an upgrade; it's a complete overhaul of the Nuxt framework we've come to know and love. Built from the ground up with Vue 3, TypeScript, and...