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  • Protocol reverse engineering with tcpdump

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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