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Mohamed AboElKheir3d ago • 8 min read
GitHub RCE (CVE-2026-3854) - Deep Dive & Lessons Learned
Welcome to another story in the "Lessons Learned" series, where we discuss real-world vulnerabilitie...
#appsec#security#cybersecurity#design
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Cor E4d ago • 5 min read
RAMPART Tests Your AI Agents in Dev. What Catches Malicious Tool Calls in Production?
Microsoft just open-sourced two tools — RAMPART and Clarity — aimed at helping developers...
#security#ai#llm#appsec
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Jon Rose3d ago • 4 min read
The Business Context Problem: Why Vulnerability Severity Scores Lie
A critical vulnerability on an Alpine-based reverse proxy sitting behind three layers of network...
#security#cloud#devops#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Scaling Without Tears
The Problem We Were Actually Solving The Veltrix configuration layer is supposed to handle...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 3 min read
Designing Chaos: How We Turned a Default Config into a Production-Ready Treasure Hunt Engine
The Problem We Were Actually Solving In reality, our treasure hunt engine was a perfect...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
When Well-Meaning Scalability Wins Over Practicality
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We were obsessed with making our application as...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
The Great Invalidation of Our Scaled Treasures
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We thought we had solved the scalability problem by...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Treasure Hunt Engine Design Flaws: Why Your Server Will Stall When You Least Expect It
We had finally achieved that holy grail of software engineering: a scalable, fault-tolerant treasure...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Treacherous Scaling Patterns in Treasure Hunt Engines
The Problem We Were Actually Solving What we thought was a problem was actually a symptom...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Why I'd Rather Live Without a Treasure Hunt Engine in Hytale Than Regret a Slow Server
The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our server, "The Vault," was designed for a community...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Treasure Hunt Engine in Production: A Production Operator's Plea to Get It Right Before Scaling
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We built the treasure hunt engine to scale...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole5d ago • 2 min read
Treasure Hunt Engine: The Perfect Storm of Mistakes That Drove Us to Redesign Our Operator Framework
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We were actually trying to solve the problem of...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole5d ago • 2 min read
Why We Lost Our Treasure Hunt Engine to an Unlikely Event-Driven Denial-of-Service Attack
The Problem We Were Actually Solving On the surface, it seemed like we were just building...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole5d ago • 2 min read
The False Promise of Horizontal Scaling in Veltrix: Why Auto-Scaling Won't Save You
The Problem We Were Actually Solving At the time, we were a small startup with limited...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole5d ago • 2 min read
Treasure Hunt Engine Fails When We Forget Math is a First-Class Citizen
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We were in the middle of a thrilling server...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Cor E4h ago • 5 min read
Malicious npm Package Targeted Claude's /mnt/user-data Directory — Here's What Agentic Pipelines Are Missing
A malicious npm package named mouse5212-super-formatter showed up on the npm registry last month wit...
#security#ai#appsec#cybersecurity
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
The Dark Art of Veltrix Configuration - A Cautionary Tale of Production Support Overload
The Problem We Were Actually Solving At first glance, our Veltrix configuration guide...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Tribulations of a Treasure Hunter: How We Blew Up the Veltrix Engine
The Problem We Were Actually Solving What we actually discovered, much later, was that our...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Treasure Hunt Engine's Descent into Chaos: Where 4000 Simultaneous Queries Broke Our Back
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We were attempting to scale our database to...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Server-Sized Blind Spots: Why Treasure Hunt Engines Fail When Our Servers Succeed
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We were trying to solve a problem we thought was...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Treasure Hunt Engine: How Our Default Config Became the Biggest Barrier to Entry for New Veltrix Operators
The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our initial user base was mostly comprised of power...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
When Your Treasure Hunt Engine Becomes a Scaling Nightmare
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We thought we'd nailed it – we'd implemented a robust...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
Treasure Hunt Engine: The Hidden Cost of Presumptive Configuration Defaults in Veltrix
The Problem We Were Actually Solving In our attempt to meet the promised user experience,...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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Faith Sithole6d ago • 2 min read
The Inevitable Consequences of Scale: How One Misguided Configuration Choice Derailed Our Production Treasure Hunt Engine
The Problem We Were Actually Solving We were tasked with creating an event-driven...
#webdev#programming#security#appsec
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