Diego Pacheco Tech blog

Apache Mina is a rock-solid framework to build high performant network applications. Mina provides sockets using NIO Framework with non-blocking IO fashion. Using mina you can build a TCP Server/Client, FTP Server, SShd lib, or an XMPP server. Today I want to explore a TCP Server/Client simple application protocol using Apache Mina. So I made a simple POC so how the application working and also used Junit to test the app. There is a video explaining in detail how it works. So Let's get started.

NTOP 2 is a great tool for linux monitoring. It`s focused on network and have all sorts of charts, visualization and network information you might need. Today i will show how to install and run ntop2 on Amazon Linux OS(CentOS based) this is not a straight forward task because there are lots of dependencies. This is very useful if you are doing Stress Tests or Network or Network Failure tests because you can see whats going on with plenty of details the whole thing is very colorful.