cURL

Quick Domain Spoof with cURL

Occasionally, you need to quickly check service availability, make sure your application is alive, or retrieve a certificate using internal interfaces.

Ansible

Ansible: K.I.S.S. Optimization

It's fascinating, but our automation code is mature enough to have compatibility issues during the operating system upgrade. Let's see how violating the "Keep it simple stupid (K.I.S.S.)" principle leads you to trouble.

PowerShell

How To Watch in PowerShell

Every system administrator who runs a big system knows how to make long-running tasks less boring. Watching progress is one of those little fun things.

development

The Sin of Generalization

Our ancestors gifted us with a great ability: visual pattern recognition. It helped them survive by distinguishing tree branches from pythons and good fruit from bad. We train neural networks to recognize patterns, generalize, and create variations, with one difference: we teach them when to stop.

WebMethods

WebMethods.io: Custom Transformers

In previous integration posts, I briefly touched on the powerful mechanism of the Webmethods.io Transformers. Let's explore the data manipulation tools using a real-life example.

Ansible

Ansible: Log Visibility Control

Ansible, originally developed as a state management tool, relies on logs to track play progress and target states due to its distributed execution. Let's discuss a few methods for controlling log content and visibility.

Ansible

Ansible: Ad-Hoc Shell Module

I shared a tip on handling missing files in an Ansible playbook some time ago. I have now tried to do the same with ad hoc command execution. Here is how you can use extra module arguments.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT-4: Webnmethods.io Connector

Earlier in the series, we defined a custom connector for the new X API and established that a predefined connector does not work with the latest OpenAI models. Let's create a custom REST connector for the latest GPT models.

Cloud Integration

Webmethod.io: Implementation. Part 2.

We finally get into workflow building, with all custom components and connections required for a secure Ghost Blog. Today, we will complete the overall design and error-handling process.

TestRail

TestRail API is disabled for your installation (error)

Problem: I tried calling the TestRail API to retrieve a case through the REST API. This is my curl command used: C:\Users\ahmed> curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -u "ahmed@revelationtech.com:16JQ1MTMMsEQl4wIeCp" "https://ahmedttt.testrail.io/index.php?/api/v2/get_case/

ChatGPT

Webmethods.io meets ChatGPT

Creating the integration, I think we should make a stop for deep diving into the connector configuration to illustrate how traditional information systems meet large language models (LLM).

WebMethods

Webmethods.io: Implementation

If you follow my Webmethods.io Integration series, you already have an environment, the process blueprint, custom action, and the X/Twitter connector. It's time to use them in a new integration flow.

WebMethods

Ghost: Securing Webhooks

Life in security-first environments shifts your perspective on many things, even if you don't really want that. This story explains how to control the Ghost blog and webhooks message exchange.

AWS

Lambda Function Internet Connectivity Issues in AWS - And how to resolve it!

When deploying AWS Lambda functions, especially those requiring access to both the internet and internal AWS resources like an Amazon RDS MySQL server, you might encounter connectivity issues that can be frustrating to diagnose and resolve. This post will walk you through a common problem that developers face and offer

AWS

Utilizing Amazon Detective for Security Investigations

Amazon Detective is a highly effective AWS service developed with a lot of care and accuracy to provide a solution that would enable you to investigate and analyze security issues and other anomalies in your AWS environment efficiently. This blog post will answer eight common questions related to what Amazon

AWS

Monitoring AWS EC2 Instances on Amazon Linux AMI with CloudWatch [2024]

While performance and cost-efficiency are essential for AWS, effectively monitoring AWS EC2 instances is the key to staying above both factors. In this blog post, I will guide you through installing and configuring Amazon CloudWatch Agent on an EC2 Linux instance, enabling you to monitor key metrics and set up

Functionize

Self-healing with Functionize, and AI-powered test automation platform

Functionize is an AI-powered test automation platform lets you create end-to-end functional tests in minutes. It includes a slew of advanced features and capabilities, but the one I want to focus on in this post is self-healing. Self-healing is a capability used to automatically fix issues in the automated test

WebMethods

X.com: Webmethods Custom Connector

The main reason I started this automation project was X integration. The changes in the social network API were an excuse for many automation tools to move X integration to premium plans. Webmethods.io offers code-free integration, and here is a recipe.

WebMethods

Webmethods.io: Workflow Design

By now, you are familiar with the Webmethods.io Integration, get access to your forever-free environment, and create your first project. It's time to draw.

ChatGPT

Looking for solutions to errors: Google or ChatGPT?

So I received this error when running my Python code today. I was attempting to read a Microsoft Word document and apparently I didn't have the docx module installed. ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'docx' It's a simple solution to a simple problem. I just

Azure

Error: Requests under Azure OpenAI API have exceeded token rate limit of S0 pricing tier

My Problem When I call the Azure OpenAI API through my Python code, I get this error: openai.error.RateLimitError: Requests to the ChatCompletions_Create Operation under Azure OpenAI API version 2023-05-15 have exceeded token rate limit of your current OpenAI S0 pricing tier. Please retry after 86400 seconds. Please

Tabnine

My initial experiences with Tabnine AI code assistant (hopeful)

So I signed up for the 90-day free trial to Tabnine to explore it's AI code assistance capabilities in a real-life scenario that I was working on. As stated on their website, they support a number of IDEs and I happen to be using VS Code. Instructions are

WebMethods

Webmethods.io Integration Project

Let's glance at the Webmethoods.io Integration project to finish our short product tour. We will familiarize ourselves with the Projects, Monitor, and Recipes subsystems and examine the integration project structure.

VS Code

My first time using VS Code for Python development

Visual Studio Code, also commonly referred to as VS Code, is a source-code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux, macOS, and web browsers. Not to be confused with Microsoft's Visual Studio, which is an IDE, VS Code is more of a rich text editor. A Python developer

ChatGPT

Output truncated when calling the OpenAI API

I had some Python code written that called the OpenAI API. For some reason, during execution of this code I noticed that the output was truncated. This was the snippet of the Python code that I had written that called the OpenAI API: response = await openai.ChatCompletion.acreate ( model=model,