System administration is a special are of IT. It also has a special place in my heart. It is an interesting mixture of all the other disciplines, both common across the whole industry, and at the same time unique for each person, company, and geographical location. When I have something to say or share about system administration, I use this category.
“Advanced web security topics” blog post goes over a variety of ways that a web application can get p0wned. Some of these include:
“12 Best API Monitoring Tools for Your Business” lists a bunch of services that are useful for the monitoring of your API. Read the whole thing for more details. Here’s the list of the services covered:
RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager, written in Goland. It sounds like an excellent replacement for the built-in PHP server, and even more than that – it’s production-ready. And it works on Windows too.
RoadRunner is an open source (MIT licensed) high-performance PHP application server, load balancer and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis.
RoadRunner includes PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible HTTP and HTTP/2 server and can be used to replace classic Nginx+FPM setup with much greater performance and flexibility.
CMS Scanner is a security tool from Open Security crew that you can host locally and use for security scans of WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and vBulletin websites. I think that having an automated tool like that is way better and more productive than a thousand blog posts on how to secure your installation of a particular software.
PHP 7.3 is scheduled to be released on December 6th, 2018. As always, it’ll bring a few changes and new features (read more about it here or here). But it’ll also bring a significant performance improvement. Here are the results of a few benchmarks. Long story short:
PHP 7.3 is just shy of 10% faster than PHP 7.2 in the popular PHPBench. PHP 7.3 is 31% faster than PHP 7.0 or nearly 3x the speed of PHP5.
Bring it on, I say!