Note: I don't use this scheme for my webhosting anymore, but I'll leave this here as a fun facts article

It's been awhile, blog! Things got hectic and you got pushed to the side for a little while. I've graduated and gotten a job since my last post!

Anyways, when it comes to hosting Apache serve...

The design for our fault injection framework has required the writing of a suite class which loads in other defined case classes located in their own directory. This means we need to fill a list in the suite class with case classes defined somewhere else. After doing some research we found a few me...

Over at CDOT we have another phase of the log centralization project that involves producing a fault injection framework. This framework should be:

1. Modular, such that different faults and fault cases can be applied simply
2. Cross platform, such that this framework can be run from Windows or Linux...

Elasticsearch is a powerful database technology that uses unique ideas with its restful API for queries. However when it comes to updating and reindexing Elasticsearch has no built in functionality for performing these operations in bulk. This means to do tasks like this one must make their own scr...

Logstash has a wide array of powerful filters, from the ones shipped with it to community maintained plugins. However, Logstash's speed can be compromised when these filters are not used properly. I encountered this problem while performance testing a setup we've been working on for a CRM company....