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Drown vulnerabilty

Drown stands for Decrypting RSA using Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption, and it provides a way for attackers to decrypt HTTPS communications from servers that are still supporting SSLv2. Most of us think supporting SSLv2 protocol on server is not a problem because most of the modern client software’s just don’t use it. But looks like […]

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Gatling

Introduction to Gatling

We are living in the world of technologies, it changes the way we work, the way we look at the things. We search queries in google, do shopping online, share a moment in Facebook, chat with our childhood friends irrespective of where they live. Everyone likes if the tasks are simplified or automated by online […]

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Bigdata

Load Testing Apache kafka using Kafkameter

You can refer overview of Kafka here . For Installation and configuring Kafka , refer the previous post : Configuring Apache Kafka Step 1 Go to githup and download kafkameter https://github.com/BrightTag/kafkameter Step 2 Follow the Steps for building the kafkameter.jar Step 3 Place the generated jar in $JMETER_HOME/lib/ext folder Step 4 Restart jmeter Step 5 […]

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Bigdata

Configuring Apache Kafka Environment

Kafka is used widely in social networking websites because of its performance. Refer Kafka introduction for more information.  Here i’m going to show how to setup Kafka in simple 8 steps. Step 1 Download Kafka from Apache Website: https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=/kafka/0.8.2.2/kafka_2.9.1-0.8.2.2.tgz Step 2 Untar downloaded archive. Step 3 cd kafka_2.9.2-0.8.2.2 Step 4 Start zookeeper which is used […]

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Bigdata

Apache Kafka – Introduction

Apache Kafka is the distributed messaging system which serves as a substitute for traditional JMS messaging systems in the world of BIG-DATA. Another way to describe Kafka as per Apache website is “Apache Kafka is publish-subscribe messaging rethought as a distributed commit log”. It was originally developed by LinkedIn and later on became a part […]

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Jmeter Performance Testing

How to Transfer/Refer Jmeter Variables from one Thread Group to another Thread Group?

In many situations, we encounter in referring the variables from one thread group to another. Even I found myself every time I end up in searching for the solution. Finally, I have decided to write it here, there are many ways to transfer variables, I preferably choose the following method. 1) Set up Thread Groups […]

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Introduction to Elasticsearch

Elasticsearch is an Open Source  (Apache 2), Distributed search engine built on top of Apache Lucene. It allows you start with one machine and scale to ‘n’ number of servers with high availability. Elasticsearch makes it easy to run a full-featured search server. It can be setup in lesser than five minutes. In this blog […]

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Illustration of MITM attack

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Gif: Illustration of Manual transmission.

Here’s a gif, from internet illustrating manual gear transmission.

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Windows

Installing .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2

There might be requirements of installing .Net Framework 3.5 in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, and you will most likely run into problems while installing it. If you are trying to install .NET Framework 3.5 from the Server Manager GUI, you will see this when installing the feature: “Do you want to specify an […]