September 6, 2013

Engineering Around The Privacy Crisis

Is it a crisis? The latest news from the NSA snooping debacle suggests it is. If they have the means to deliberately insert vulnerabilities into well known encryption standards and circumvent others, then what were previously thought to be secure connections, to banks, email providers and search engines, may not be anymore. Bruce Schneier issued somewhat of a call to arms yesterday, asking the engineers to look at how to resolve these problems, and reegineer the internet to our own needs once again, rather than those of some faceless security services personnel, somewhere.

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September 4, 2013

Working With Haproxy

Old Article Comments I exported these from my old wordpress blog, so they are a bit out of date, but I thought I’d keep them around for posterity. [Andy Dorfman] - Apr 5, 2014 Excellent article. Do you think this setup will work to load balance/failover several nonclustered weblogic instances. In my current setup, i have apache rp listening on port 443 with ssl termination and forwarding everything to weblogics, listening on port 80.

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September 4, 2013

Working With Haproxy

Although I have worked with enterprise envrionments running Oracle and SQL Server for quite a few years, I’ve yet to be involved in a real high-availability deployment. This has been for a variety of technical reasons in our company’s application, and a lack of interest from most customers. Recently, I explored options and had the opportunity to test some load balancing setups for our application servers at a customer site. I was impressed with the reliability and reputation of the HAproxy software, so had a look at that to begin with.

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