On a recent project the security team insisted all traffic between Redis and web server be encrypted. As you know Redis doesn’t support SSL so I looked around at a few solutions. A few people mentioned using an SSH tunnel, others stunnel and others still rolling your own SSL into Redis. Right away I dismissed rolling my own, besides being very difficult and with the recent heartbleed bug and bad patching from Akamai, if antirez won’t do…
I have been using Redis for a few years now and it still surprises me. When I started using it, it was a simple key/value store, an incredibly fast one but still a key/value store. Every time I visit the commands page I find new and cool commands giving simple access to amazing functionality. In the last few months alone, Redis has enabled my co-workers and I deliver:
Its easy to…
Got a new bike. The BMW s1000rr. It is unbelievable, the power is exceptional. It is a few years old but has less than 1000 miles on the clock and is in pristine condition. They come with 193+ bhp from factory and you can feel it. Amazing machine. Looking forward to the next TT to properly stretch its legs.
Here is it compared to the fastest…
Smart internet is awesome.
Here is a neat trick to limit the amount of bandwidth you get from a specific IP or web address. I setup a box for my last company that used this technique to simulate sever and client being in different locations, great for performance testing. It uses a BSD command called ipfw or IP Firewall, which allows you to create pipes and queues to simulate any sort of network…
I’ve been using my hackintosh for a good bit now and its fully updated. I recently got a Dell X1300 pro 256 MB (RV516) PCI-e graphics card. It seems this is some hybrid card which is branded as an X1550 else where and has a different ID on each output. This means the card can not CI or QE, which is kinda important in OSX…
If you’re uploading files, you of course use localhostr, well now you can do it without opening a web browser. Here are apps for both Windows & Mac to put files on localhostr straight from the desktop. Find out about them on Jon’s blog or download them here.
Okay, after about two years of neglect I’ve final updated the site. I will be putting all my software back up soon (ieasypod, Easyriver…..etc) and hopefully some new stuff.