Blog Posts
These my Blog Posts are mainly to have some all day commands available 🫢.
AWFFull 4.0.0 — Modernising a 2008 Web Log Analyser
AWFFull 4.0.0 brings a long-overdue overhaul to a C-based web server log analyser forked from Webalizer: PCRE2 replaces EOL libpcre, libmaxminddb replaces the deprecated GeoIP .dat format, new ASN statistics show traffic by network operator, and optional Intel Hyperscan, mimalloc, and XXH3 deliver measurable performance gains on large logs. The release also adds a full GitLab CI/CD pipeline, .deb/.rpm packages, a multi-stage container image, updated browser and bot detection lists, and 100%-complete translations for 6 languages.
AWFFull in the Cloud: Shipping Logs to Object Storage and Running in Containers
A practical guide to shipping web server access logs to AWS S3 or Azure Blob Storage using Fluent Bit, Vector, or Filebeat/Logstash — including persistent buffering, retry configuration, concurrent write safety, and log loss prevention. Covers running AWFFull as a stateless container against object storage logs and serving the generated reports as a static website.
loadgen-rs (Short): Results, Quick Start, and Tool Choice
A short version of the loadgen-rs article: what it does, benchmark highlights vs h2load, when to choose which tool, and how to start quickly in single-node and distributed mode.
loadgen-rs: An HTTP Benchmark Client in Rust
How I built an HTTP benchmark client in Rust that supports HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3 — machine-readable output, distributed multi-node mode, Terraform/Ansible cloud deployment, and what CPU profiling revealed about the performance ceiling.
cert-manager-webhook-libdns: One Webhook, Many DNS Providers
How cert-manager-webhook-libdns enables DNS-01 across many DNS providers via libdns, with practical operational improvements, compatibility automation, and a quick Kubernetes deployment path.