Why Your Local Workstation Can’t Mimic the Cloud

If there is one thing developers love, it’s control. This makes sense—if you build something as complex as a software system, you need to understand what’s happening at every level. But absolute control can be a liability when it becomes the main … Continue reading Why Your Local Workstation Can’t Mimic the Cloud

LD_PRELOAD: How to Run Code at Load Time

    Today I want to continue the series on using LD_PRELOAD.  In previous posts, we covered how to inject a shared object binary into a process, and use that to hijack a library function call to run our own code.  This is great when we want to overwrit… Continue reading LD_PRELOAD: How to Run Code at Load Time