In this article, I will go through how to spin up a stub/mock server and proxy server using netcat.

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Use case: Usually, when integrating with external service endpoints in your backend application, you will be using libraries (require('https') for Nodejs, import requests or import aiohttp for Python, HttpUrlConnection for Java, etc.) to make HTTP calls. It might be difficult...

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In this post, I will go through how to setup OpenSSH, secure your keys, set up SSH Tunnel, socks proxy, use jump hosts and batch mode is ssh.

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The purpose of the article is to explain default configurations (which can cause bottleneck) at Node.js, Apache, and OS level and how to change those configurations. Any configuration listed below in the diagram can affect client request processing time.

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