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Andrew Hutchings (aka LinuxJedi) has worked on many of the Open Source software projects that make up the Internet. He now works from home in the UK for MariaDB developing their MariaDB ColumnStore engine.

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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.

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Posted on 2017-08-292017-08-29Categories Linux, MariaDBTags ColumnStore, Linux, MariaDB, ToolsLeave a comment on Protocol reverse engineering with tcpdump
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

— Nick Morrott (@nickmorrott) August 24, 2017

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Posted on 2017-08-252017-08-24Categories LinuxTags Linux, ToolsLeave a comment on Linux tools: silver searcher
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.

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Posted on 2017-08-242017-08-24Categories LinuxTags Linux, Tools3 Comments on Linux tools: ack and memleakx
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