Gatling for Scala-based load test
I have just assisted to a presentation of Gatling, a Scala/Akka-based framework to do mainly HTTP load tests. It promises to scale EXTREMELY well, being based on the Actor Model, it doesn't consume 1...
View ArticleWebLogic SSL : Cipher not initialized
you can fix it by adding "-Dweblogic.security.SSL.nojce=true" to the JAVA_OPTIONS in the DOMAIN_HOME/bin/setDomainEnv.sh (and restart all). This flag is well explained in the Oracle Doc "What does...
View ArticleOSB, read file content as binary response from HTTP
The trick is: Create a "Messaging Service" Business ServiceRequest type = NoneResponse type = BinaryHTTP method = GETthe GET method becomes available only when you choose "request type = None",...
View ArticleOSB versions: how to tell which version is installed
in the sbconsole, click on About Service Bus: OSB 11.1.1.5.0: Oracle Service Bus 11.1 Wed Apr 20 04:25:20 EDT 2011 1400736. Oracle Service Bus 11gR1 Copyright © 2004, 2011OSB 11.1.1.7.0: Oracle Service...
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Poll result: I prefer a language which is...
Cool. So feel I. I like the rigorous syntactic and full refactor-ability check that a Statically Typed language offers you. I absolutely need compile-time checks to be as comprehensive as possible....
View Articlegit bare repository
mkdir repo1cd repo1 git initInitialized empty Git repository in C:/pierre/gittests/repo1/.git/this repo1 will contain the .git folder with hooks, info, objects, refsmkdir barerepo2.gitcd...
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Book: git version control for everyone
The book has the PLUS of being very simply explained (although quite verbosely) and it focuses on some fundamental aspects of GIT which are very useful. The MINUS is that it's for Windows users (they...
View ArticleVagrant, setting multiple IPs on a box
The official doc gives example only for 1 IP: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/networking/private_network.htmlVagrant.configure("2") do |config| config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.50.4"end...
View ArticleReally cool "getting started with Scala" videos
I really like the style of this guy: no blabla, straight to the point, show me the code.
View ArticleWeird Hiera related error messages in Puppet
A colleague had a YAML file not properly formatted, and he kept getting this error message: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: syntax error on line 16, col -1: `' at...
View Articlesql connect by level
Sometimes it's useful to generate in SQL a series of data responding to a certain criteria. Like "the integers between 0 and N", or "the dates between today and 5 days ago"You can do it with "connect...
View Articleunpack of a OSB domain fails if OSB is not installed (of course...)
The unpack of a OSB domain template will fail with: Required component home not found for component 'oracle.as.jrf' version '11.1.1.7.0'"I think at the origin of the issue is that it's expecting to...
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Surge of site traffic from Ukraine
What is going on.... surely nothing "normal"... anyway our friends from Ukraine are welcome, unless they are part of some paramilitary forces involved in the killing of innocent civilians.
View ArticleSQLDeveloper: exporting/importing of CLOB data (XML)
Ok, I know that SQLDeveloper should not be the tool for this job, but it's so convenient, readily available and flexible.One can export to a SQL INSERT file, but the CLOB is not exported. One can use...
View ArticleResistance is futile
Today a friend told me he went for a permanent position in a large, bureaucratic, very political organization. I immediately thought of....The Borg... We are BorgYou will be assimilatedI am Locutus, a...
View ArticleLucene and ElasticSearch clustering
https://blog.liip.ch/archive/2013/07/19/on-elasticsearch-performance.html this is a concise and excellent presentation on clustering and LB https://vimeo.com/26710663 Shay Banon talks about Shards and...
View Articlebash scripts, success and failure
All this might be trivial, but it's good to have it written down somewhere. false and true can be used to simulate a command which failed or succeeded(respectively)falseecho $?1trueecho $?0You can use...
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Cygwin tricks with Ruby
First thing, install the Cygwin version of Ruby:during Cygwin setup, otherwise if you try to run the Windows version of Ruby you will get:C:\Ruby200-x64\bin\ruby.exe: No such file or directory --...
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Book: Storms of My Grandchildren
Author James Hansen does a decent job at unraveling the intricacies of climate science, sometimes one gets lost in the intricacies of the technicalities.... yet especially at the end of the book the...
View ArticleTop ten security breaches , by OWASP
Recently a friend of mine took an interview as IT Architect. He was hammered with questions about top security breaches, and they are all listed here on the OWASP site. InjectionBroken Authentication...
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