Hi everyone, I’m happy to announce a new release of solrs, our asynchronous / non-blocking solr client for java/scala.
“Menschen, die miteinander zu schaffen haben, machen einander zu schaffen”- diese Weisheit des Kommunikationswissenschaftlers Friedemann Schulz von Thun können wir in fast jedem Meeting, bei Abteilungsbesprechungen oder an den müden Augen unseres Kollegen erkennen.
Stelle dir folgende Situation vor:
Dein Kollege kommt mal wieder zu spät zum Meeting mit dem Kunden. Zudem ist er - wie üblich - mittelmäßig vorbereitet. Zum Glück warst du überpünktlich und hast gestern noch die Präsentation perfektioniert, so dass der Kunde auf jeden Fall zufrieden sein wird. Nach dem Termin stellst du deinen Kollegen zur Rede, er hört sich dein Lamento genervt an, was dich verärgert, aber was kannst du denn noch tun? Aus deiner Sicht wird es beim nächsten Mal genauso laufen, weil du eben die Ordentliche bist und er halt der Chaot ist und immer bleiben wird.
Johannes Mainusch und ich haben am 24.2. in Berlin auf der BobKonf einen Vortrag zum Thema “Vertikale-Organisation: da muss sich was um 90 Grad drehen im Kopf” gehalten.
Johannes Mainusch und ich haben am 6.9. in Stuttgart beim Breuninger einen Meetup-Vortrag zum Thema “Vertikale-Organisation: wer ist hier OPS-verantwortlich gehalten.
In the first blogpost of this series, I’ve shown you how easy it is for an attacker to eavesdrop the SSL/TLS connection between you and your client. This is not a theoretical issue and happens to customers every day. Even strong ciphers and encryption settings don’t help. Why? The problem is trust: If your client trusts any server, it doesn’t matter which cyphers your server is using.
This post is the second in the “Your HTTPS Setup is Broken”-series. Previously, I’ve described how easy it is for an attacker to eavesdrop on your “secure” communication. In this post I’ll show you how to enforce encrypted communication, so an attacker cannot downgrade the connection to unencrypted HTTP.
Here’s a short post with linked slides and the recording of our third Reactive Systems Hamburg Meetup. We were very pleased to have Dr. Roland Kuhn as guest, presenting some highlights from his new book Reactive Design Patterns that’s currently in MEAP and should be finished in 3 to 4 months (I can highly recommend it!).
So, you use HTTPS to encrypt communication with your customers. Maybe you use the latest encryption ciphers and algorithms. But you may still have a very big issue in your setup. In this first blog post about HTTPS security, I’ll show that trust is at least important as encryption while securing communication. Furthermore, I’ll show how untrustworthy the current Certificate Authority infrastructure is.
The last episode of this series covered the motivation behind Monad Transformers and gave some examples of their usage. Now it is time to show a small real world application. By chance I stumpled accross this section of code in an open source project:
Let’s say you are a typical scala programmer, making plenty of use of Futures in your code. Sooner or later you end up having APIs like the following:
This post is about Cassandra’s batch statements and which kind of batch statements are ok and which not. Often, when batch statements are discussed, it’s not clear if a particular statement refers to single- or multi-partition batches or to both - which is the most important question IMO (you should know why after you’ve read this post).