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Hackathon 0x09 – lib-common benchmarks

The goal was to develop benchmarks on a few of our core technologies in lib-common, in order to: Be able to compare the performances of our custom implementations with standard implementations. Be able to add automated tests on performance (e.g. adding non-regression tests to ensure that changes which seem to be harmless do not worsen performance). Benchmark library The first step was to develop a benchmark library; the success criteria we established were the following (compared to the already existing benchmarks in our code base):

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Hackathon 0x09 – eBPF

At Intersec, we love new technologies that can improve our working tasks, our code, and because it is fun! During Hackathon 0x09, I tested the possibility to use BPF for tracing and debugging our C codebase. What is BPF? In the beginning, BPF was a technology used for packet filtering 1. For example, when using the command tcpdump -i lo arp, BPF is used to filter ARP packets on the loopback interface.

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Hackathon – 5 years later

During summer 2014 we organized our first hackathon. The rules are simple and are still up to date: The subjects are suggested by anyone in the company and there is no defined framework nor limit on what they can be although they often fall in the same categories, I’ll come back to that. Anyone can show interest in any of the proposed subjects and then work on it. In practice though, participants are mostly people from technical teams.

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Hackathon 0x1 – Pimp my Review or the Epic Birth of a Gerrit Plugin

This series of articles describes some of the best realisations made by Intersec R&D team during the 2-day Hackathon that took place on the 3rd and 4th of July. The goal had been set a day or two prior to the beginning of the hackathon: we were hoping to make Gerrit better at recommending relevant reviewers for a given commit. To those who haven’t heard of it, Gerrit is a web-based code review system.

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Hackathon 0x1 – Interactive mode in Behave

This series of articles describes some of the best realisations made by Intersec R&D team during the 2-day Hackathon that took place on the 3rd and 4th of July. Presentation of the Project As testers, we spend a lot of time working on behave, our test automation framework1. Our test framework is a great tool, but it takes a lot of time starting and initializing the product, running tests one by one.

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