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Protocol reverse engineering with tcpdump
Sometimes network protocols don’t entirely behave as documented. Other times there is no documentation at all beyond code. Either way you can sometimes find a need to sniff the traffic of a connection to find out what is really going on. Read more
Part of my history inside InfiniDB/ColumnStore
Several years ago there was a fork of the unreleased MySQL 6.0 called Drizzle. It was designed to be a lightweight, cloud/web/UTF8 first database server with a microkernel style core. I worked for a while as one of the core developers of Drizzle until the corporate sponsor I worked for ceased funding its development. Read more
Linux tools: silver searcher
After my previous post about ack a Twitter follower, Nick Morrott, pointed out that there is a potentially better tool than ack. Have you tried ag? Much faster than ack, especially on large codebases — @nickmorrott@fosstodon.org 🦣 (@nickmorrott) August 24, 2017 Read more
Linux tools: ack and memleakx
My day job requires me to spend a lot of time in Linux terminals, hammering away at MariaDB ColumnStore to write and test new code as well as finding and fixing bugs. I have decided to write about the tools I use to get the job done, especially newer ones I have discovered. Read more
Building BLOBs in MariaDB ColumnStore
My team and I are working on finalizing the feature set for MariaDB ColumnStore 1.1 right now and I wanted to take a bit of time to talk about one of the features I created for ColumnStore 1.1: BLOB/TEXT support. Read more
My view on Flatpak/Snap packages
There has been a lot of talk in the Open Source world about universal package formats. Specifically the big two, Flatpak and Snap packages. My current Linux desktop distro of choice, Solus, has recently announced support for them. Now, this has a lot of pros and cons and whilst I have seen and heard a… Read more
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