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Yes, hiding HTTP-referers on your outgoing links are still a thing. Even though standards evolved, they rely on your user having a current browser, which is really something outside of your control. Even then, many larger websites have technologies in place to mask the http-referer on outgoing links. This is to avoid leaking any compromising [ ] The post The fastest de-referer service with AWS…
Spinnaker has been supporting ECS (+Fargate) for over a year now, but did you know, you can also easily deploy run Spinnaker itself on ECS/Fargate? In this blog post I will walk you through our journey of how we ditched the legendary halyard tool (which coincidentally is being deprecated upstream as well) and moved [ ] The post Running Spinnaker on ECS Fargate appeared first on Lifeofguenter .
This year I finally was able to attend the 3rd DevOpsDays in Hometown Cape Town (Woodstock). As the name suggests, DevOpsDays is a conference about all DevO(o)psie things over two days (20-21 Sept 2018) in Cape Town. Since I was speaker (tricked by Kyle 😜), it was more of an 2.5 days event, which is [ ] The post Recap: DevOpsDays Cape Town 2018 appeared first on Lifeofguenter .
I recently purchased a new Mecer Xpression W940TU laptop from Computer Mania as my (not so) beloved MacBook Pro started giving me troubles. Seeing that a full repair would cost something around R5000 I decided to give a new laptop a try as I was in need of a fallback device anyway. The Mecer laptop [ ] The post Mecer Laptop Xpression W940TU: Review appeared first on Lifeofguenter .
Job and/or message queues is an important component of a modern web application. Simple calls like sending verification emails should always be pushed to a queue instead of done directly, as these calls are expensive and will cause the user to wait a while for the website to finish loading. In this blog post I [ ] The post Laravel Queues with Supervisor on ElasticBeanstalk appeared first on…
One of the perks of working for the new company is the usage of cool tools and providers. One of the new providers is Akamai state of the art CDN/EdgeCache provider and also the first one to exist.The cool new tool: Kibana4! Just a quick introduction to Kibana: Kibana belongs to the ELK [ ] The post Logstash recipe: Akamai on ELK appeared first on Lifeofguenter .
Lets say you want to use the newest version of OpenSSH on your MacBook / OSX for reasons like: your current version is too old for newer ciphers, key exchanges, etc. you trust LibreSSL more than some OSSLShim you are just some hipster that wants to have cipherli.st running No worries, in this short tutorial [ ] The post Compile OpenSSH 6.7 with LibreSSL on OSX appeared first on Lifeofguenter .
The spell checking that works perfectly on Google Chrome, OpenOffice and Mozilla Firefox is available to you and PHP as well all thanks to open source software! The above mentioned apps use the Hunspell library, which can be used directly under PHP without the usage of ugly (and unsecure) exec/system calls. The following steps [ ] The post Hunspell spell checking under PHP with enchant appeared…
Sometimes when playing around and compiling stuff you can mess up your system badly. In this case I was compiling libffi on my OSX 10.10 system without knowing that other Apps were linking to it especially Adobe Acrobat Reader (but it seems as Skype is also depending on it). Unfortunately it is linking to [ ] The post Compile libffi under OSX (10.10 / Yosemite) appeared first on Lifeofguenter .