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Diagnosing DHCP Starvation Attacks at Home
Latest Report11/07/2026

Diagnosing DHCP Starvation Attacks at Home

How forged CHADDR floods exhaust home DHCP pools, and the tcpdump signatures, dnsmasq tuning, and switch-level snooping that stop a DHCP starvation attack.

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Prometheus
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Node.js
Redis
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Kubernetes
Docker
Istio
React
Next.js
GraphQL
TypeScript
Go
Rust
Terraform
AWS
eBPF
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Zero Trust
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CI/CD
Prometheus
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Node.js
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PostgreSQL
Part 2: Non-Human Identity for Autonomous Agents
graph LR
 A[Agent Orchestrator - SPIFFE SVID] --> B[Tool Gateway]
 B -->|OPA decision + task_id| C[Credential Broker]
 C -->|AssumeRole w/ session policy| D[AWS STS]
 D -->|60s scoped token| C
 C --> B
 B -->|scoped call| E[External Tool API]
 B -->|token fingerprint| F[Action Ledger]
Author
Eleanor Hayes
Ambient Mesh: L7 Policy Without Sidecars
graph LR
 A[Pod A - no sidecar] -- redirected via iptables/eBPF --> Z1[ztunnel node1]
 Z1 -- HBONE mTLS tunnel --> Z2[ztunnel node2]
 Z2 --> W[Waypoint proxy - L7 policy]
 W --> B[Pod B - no sidecar]
Author
Marcus Thorne

Systems Operational

All CI/CD pipelines and production clusters are running nominally.

1,204
Req / Sec
14ms
Latency
tail -f /var/log/deployments.log
[System] Connection established to remote host.
[System] Listening for incoming technical documentation...
Why Uptime SLAs Lie: Benchmarking Hosting Jitter
module "bench_hetzner" {
  source        = "./modules/hetzner-instance"
  server_type   = "cpx31"
  location      = "fsn1"
  image         = "ubuntu-22.04"
  ssh_keys      = [var.ssh_key_id]
}

module "bench_digitalocean" {
  source   = "./modules/do-instance"
  size     = "s-4vcpu-8gb"
  region   =...
Author
Eleanor Hayes
Autoscaling Self-Hosted CI Runners with KEDA
apiVersion: keda.sh/v1alpha1
kind: ScaledObject
metadata:
 name: gha-runner-scaler
 namespace: arc-runners
spec:
 scaleTargetRef:
 apiVersion: actions.summerwind.dev/v1alpha1
 kind: RunnerDeployment
 name: default-runner-deployment
 pollingInterval: 15
 cooldownPeriod: 120
 minReplicaCount: 0
 maxRe...
Author
Alistair Vance

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The Editorial Team

Written by Staff Engineers.

Our content is authored by industry veterans who have built, scaled, and maintained Tier-1 production systems. Real experience, zero fluff.

Alistair Vance

Alistair Vance

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Ex-AWS Solutions Architect. Specialises in multi-region Kubernetes deployments, Service Mesh (Istio), and high-availability database topologies.

Eleanor Hayes

Eleanor Hayes

Head of Cloud Security

Pioneer in Zero-Trust architecture. Eleanor focuses on eBPF-based network observability, secret management, and automated compliance in CI/CD pipelines.

Marcus Thorne

Marcus Thorne

Lead DevOps Engineer

Chaos Engineering advocate. Marcus builds resilient GitOps workflows using ArgoCD and writes extensively on automated incident response strategies.

Architecture Philosophy & Core Competencies

Engineering for scale requires zero-trust principles, immutable infrastructure, and rigorous chaos engineering. We publish deep technical architectures covering Kubernetes orchestration, eBPF network observability, CI/CD deployment pipelines, and multi-region distributed databases.

Distributed Systems

Advanced playbooks for managing highly-available, multi-region database topologies. We explore consensus algorithms (Raft/Paxos), ETCD split-brain mitigation, and strategies for eventual consistency at massive scale.

Cloud Native Operations

Deep dives into Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management, custom operator development, and GitOps workflows utilising ArgoCD. We document production-grade patterns for service meshes like Istio and Linkerd.

Security & Observability

Implementing Zero-Trust network architecture and secret injection. We heavily utilise eBPF for low-overhead kernel-level network tracing, coupled with Prometheus and Grafana for full-stack observability.