How do I spend less time on compilation

2017-06-11 Development 6 minute read
As part of my day job, I write and compile a lot of code. My laptop is not that strong and I find myself wasting a lot of time on compilation. Then I asked myself, why shouldn’t I use the cloud for getting more compute power ? Choosing cloud provider…
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Why you shouldn’t trust the documentation ?

2017-06-08 Debugging 2 minute read
Today Microsoft Azure introduced the new F-series VM sizes (you can read about it here) and our software faced a bizarre issue. When we want to create a new instance in Azure, we have an implementation that chooses VM size based on some criteria. One of the criteria is the…
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Hacking a DLL – Disassembly for beginners

2017-05-12 Cyber Security 1 minute read
At the beginning of this month, the Mossad published a hacking challenge. out of curiosity I took some time playing with it and while progressing within the challenge I discovered a dll file which should contain a hint (admin password for a fake chat room). The interesting question is what…
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Building simple testing framework in Python

2017-05-10 Development 4 minute read
Every good product need to have a good testing coverage in order to insure that it works both in “happy scenarios” and in “bad scenarios” – inc. disruptions, limits and etc. Beside unit tests, every module should be tested “end-to-end” as well. In this blog post I’ll demonstrate how to…
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Web Browser Automation using Selenium

2017-05-07 Development 2 minute read
Recently, I was participating in an online challenge that included “hacking” to a website that was especially created for the challenge. After figuring out what to do at the beginning, I came to the conclusion that I need to send a particular html form multiple times (over 30) while changing…
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