Today, we have Mike Buckbee on the show. Mike is the co-founder of Wafris, and he wrote a really insightful article last week about moving from Redis to SQLite for an aspect of their architecture. The article was nuanced in describing why it worked for their specific needs, and it has some surprising takeaways, including that SQLite was 3x faster than a local Redis instance for their workload.
Mike has built a few different WAF (Web Application Firewall) products, so we covered that area as well. He's seen a lot here, so we walked through all the nefarious traffic patterns and the speed in which these bots adapt to new vulnerabilities.
Finally, Mike has a wide-ranging skillset that includes marketing. Developers are notoriously tricky to market to, so we talked about his experience in effective marketing to developers without being disingenuous.
*Links*
Blog Post: https://wafris.org/blog/rearchitecting-for-sqlite
For A Good Strftime: https://www.foragoodstrftime.com/
IP Lookup: https://wafris.org/ip-lookup
*Timestamps*
01:11 Introduction
03:41 Wafris
07:22 Redis and SQLite
19:09 Flatfile
21:50 Knowatoa
28:22 Web Application Firewalls
46:21 Jumpstart Pro
48:11 Marketing to Developers