Author: hbagdi

  • tcpbin.com now supports IPv6

    tcpbin.com was launched five years ago on 16th September 2019.To celebrate the five year anniversary, I have added IPv6 support to it. Over the years, a few users have requested support for IPv6 but DNS query analysis shows that there may more demand. The DNS records are in place and the web page now also…

  • Upstream TLS with Kong

    TLS is pervasive on the public Internet, but TLS within a local network, much less. That is changing with easier, better tooling around TLS and PKI. Kong Gateway provides support for TLS between Kong and Upstream servers out of the box for Open-Source as well as Enterprise versions. The basics To enable TLS between Kong…

  • Popdev culture

    “Popdev” defines the vogue of software or tech at large. I have to coin this term because the talk “Boring Technology” by Dan McKinley, although having aged well, hasn’t brought about the change I eagerly and naively wished for. So what falls under “Popdev”? Any and all popular fads that are pushed into the mainstream.…

  • Serpico effect

    Serpico effect: When enough people are doing the wrong thing, if you try to go against them and show it to them, they become dangerous and will try to harm you instead. This psychological bias in humans is named after Frank Serpico, who tried to bring light to police corruption in NYPD. In turn, his colleagues…

  • Ending procrastination

    After procrastinating for 10 years, I’ve finally decided to create a personal blog and write my first blog-post. The first time I decided to write a blog was some time around in 2009 when I was starting to get interested in computer programming and was combing my way through ‘My code outputs segmentation fault no…