Sysrant Posts

Let’s start with the most spot-on comic of Hilbert. I’ve personally seen various cases as this comic. In real companies. For real production flows. From real people. This entire discussion about monolith vs microservices feels the same for me. The same as the discussion about cloud vs on-prem, Rust vs Go, red vs blue… What we read is biased Every blog, even this one, is biased. Because I have my set of experiences gained over the years, it does not mean I have covered every aspect of IT. Not even speaking over the aspect that comes with company politics, architecture,…

I use Slack ever so often, therefor I challenge myself to explore it further, rather than just being a user. For the fun, experience and just random interest in how things work. That’s was also the reason for https://sysrant.com/500-bounty-man-in-the-middle-on-slack/ 😉 Anyhow, within Slack you can create bots with various capabilities. I just want to create small apps/bots in my spare time. Making something of a Slash Command is fairly easy. Slash Commands A slash command is something like /the-command input which can be fired from the chat in Slack. It will do an HTTP request and expects a response back…

secure: adjective –  certain to remain safe and unthreatened. I’d never been that “secure” in my entire life when it comes to IT security. In the past, I’ve run for years without a virus -scanner or protector. The thing is that I’ve been taking this quite logically rather than rationally. Most people would have to frown their eyebrows on my second sentence; why would you not protect yourself?  That’s the thing though. I know what I’m doing and what is happening on my system. I know what I visit (browsing) and I know what I install. I monitor my network…

I’ve always had an interest in security the moment a teacher showed me an SQL injection in the code I’ve made.. over 12 years ago.  There were two main reasons for that. I was intrigued by the technical puzzle that presented itself by abusing someone’s code. The second part was that everyone with that knowledge could access my database. Something I did not want because it could contain sensitive data. In this case, it was merely a school assignment but ever since I developed more skills in security because I cared.  It’s now 12 years later and security became a…