SQS Benchmark (with large messages)

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a scalable and fully managed message queuing service that allows users to transmit any amount of data through the web without administrative responsibility. Recently, I tried to evaluate whenever the SQS service will fit my needs for a design I’m working on. My…

Proper use of static keyword

Recently I found a funny bug in our code and I wanted to share some insights on it so you won’t do the same mistakes. Let’s assume we have a function that produces a lot of output and it can run from multiple threads. I wrote a simple program to…

Hacking a DLL – Disassembly for beginners

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…