Sinkholing - Face the Threat, Beat the Threat
Part II - Implementation
In this second in a three part series on Sinkholing, we will dive into the details of implementation. In part one of our series on Sinkholing, we got into general ideas about how Sinkholing works, why it is needed, and how it fits into our infrastructure... »
Scraping Ethtool data into Prometheus
This post will take you through our journey of debugging a production issue that eventually led us to produce a new ethtool data exporter for Prometheus. We open-sourced this new exporter and it lives in our repository on Github. As always - patches... »
Analyzing Network Traffic in Command Line-only Environments
This short article/how-to will show you how to solve a real issue. Our PostgreSQL logs were being stripped of trailing C-style comments containing a GDPR-relevant ID. We weren’t sure where this data was being stripped, but there were only a couple... »
Sinkholing - Face the Threat, Beat the Threat
Part I - You gotta ban ‘em all!
This is the first in a three part series on sinkholing, targeted attacks, and how to defend your platform. As our user base (and our popularity) grows, so too does the threat of sudden attacks against our platform. We have encountered many attempts... »
One Small Bug For Man, One Giant Failure For CMS-kind
This is a tale of several small issues turning into an absolute clusterf^@k. It’s never just the one bug that causes a catastrophe, it’s always a synergy of multiple small issues - small issues that are so stupid, and so easy to overlook, that it’s... »
Automated UI testing and catching visual regressions
Automated UI testing is probably one of the most discussed - and most painful - areas in the quality assurance (QA) field. Automated UI tests often tend to be flaky, give false negative results, and, as such, cannot be used in the Continuous Integration... »