Pavel's blog about underlying Internet technologies

Pavel Odintsov

Product failures tracking with Sentry

To keep excellent customer experience with FastNetMon we use Sentry to report any failures from our installation tools implemented in Go. Today we received following anonymised report about FastNetMon Community installation failure: It was pretty clear that it caused by missing configuration policy flags for dpkg in our installer logic

Why Ubuntu LTS is the best Linux distribution

Since start of FastNetMon project in 2013 Ubuntu LTS was our distribution of choice. It has all must have points for production deployments: - Very long and predictable support cycle - It offers fresh versions of kernels to address hardware support - Backed by open and transparent community of Debian

RethinkDB is alive

Today I learnt that RethinkDB is alive again. Did you hear about it previously? It's extremely modern JSON database with focus on real time operations. When it was commercial project they failed this game to MongoDB. But I would not say that MongoDB is more modern, it definitely

GRE for DDoS attack detection

Do you know that GRE protocol can be used to deliver port mirror / SPAN packets to remote monitoring location? It offers plenty of benefits such us ability to send it over L3 without creating L2 tunnel between router and collector. It's very nice protocol for DDoS attack detection

Hello World!

I'm Pavel, I'm CTO and co-founder of FastNetMon. I'm on mission to deliver affordable DDoS protection for companies around the World. I have strong software engineering background with focus on networks. I love Internet and I believe that it's the best invention