In my access logs, I found excessive requests from IP address 65.108.99.119. During a regular review, I also found this IP is listed on AbuseIPDB, which indicated it has a lower reputation or may even be malicious. The reverse PTR was also not very valuable. But it helped me find a page that could link […] Source| Web-Performance Blog
During a review of access logs, I recently came across this user agent string. It was by far the highest in request count. As it turns out, this is a SEO tool called Sistrix. The reverse PTR for real…| Web-Performance Blog
If you are using Azure Front Door, the need for a WAF policy that rate limits or blocks access to certain IP addresses might arise. Using the correct parameters in the WAF policy is crucial to…| Web-Performance Blog
Between July 14-17, police and cybersecurity agencies from multiple countries worked together to go after NoName057(16), a pro-Russian cybercrime network. The operation, called “Eastwood…| Web-Performance Blog
I stumbled across this prompt refinement tool. I do not have much experience with it, but it looks interesting to help with building prompts. Source| Web-Performance Blog
A recent change in the SqlServer PowerShell module has given me a headache this week. I’m running the module with Azure DevOps in a pipeline that is triggering an Azure deployment script within a network-integrated container instance. The problem this error. Workaround This change causes my Invoke-Sqlcmd command to fail, which was luckily already covered […] Source| Web-Performance Blog
A blog post was today published outlining the risk (CVE-2025-34509) of Sitecore having a default user Sitecore\ServicesAPI and a password of b. The user usually has no default roles, however, it is already one step inside the system. Probably setting a secure and strong password could be sufficient. I didn’t yet see an official statement […] Source| Web-Performance Blog
Recently I saw intermittent failures of a Python script. However, in my Azure DevOps pipeline, I don’t really knowingly use Python. After today, it just kept consistently failing, which led me to research this issue with the Azure CLI. I ran into this issue, and after not too long searching, I could already find an […] Source| Web-Performance Blog
I started seeing a new issue on June 10th, 2025 that my Azure App Service staging slot was created with the name “staging”, but it became “stagingd5a1” in the domain name. So four seemingly random characters were added to my azure app service deployment slot name. This became a problem as my pipeline is running […] Source| Web-Performance Blog
While I’m aware those models aren’t limited or bound to Ollama, is Ollama still the way I interface and use them? Here I try to keep notes on how I use certain models and what I like or dislike about them. This is purely a subjective view, there are many attempts at objectively measuring the […] Source| Web-Performance Blog
I’m a big fan of Tailscale ever since I heard about it. I connect my devices, but I always had an issue with not being able to route traffic for specific domains through the exit node.| Web-Performance Blog
The significance of website performance is constantly increasing. Over the past few years, I have been committed to enhancing website speed and security. The initial irony lies in the fact that this…| Web-Performance Blog
This is also a show-and-tell of options on how to use and play with Ollama. I tend to use my Ollama as a headless system sending requests via VPN for remote processing on my Ollama macOS.| Web-Performance Blog
I’m collecting a multitude of skills in local AI processing, and today it is audio to text. I switched to Ollama for most of my AI processing needs, but audio files can’t yet be processed via Ollama…| Web-Performance Blog
As I work every day, I constantly see recurring work that I would like to optimize and automate. There are use cases that feel obvious that they should work and easy to do, but the real-world…| Web-Performance Blog
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has officially reserved the .internal top-level domain (TLD) for private use at the DNS level. This decision aims to provide a…| Web-Performance Blog
LM Studio is a user-friendly desktop application designed for exploring local and open-source Large Language Models (LLMs). Your data remains securely stored on your machine, and the best part is, it’…| Web-Performance Blog
Between July 14-17, police and cybersecurity agencies from multiple countries worked together to go after NoName057(16), a pro-Russian cybercrime network. The operation, called “Eastwood,” was coordinated by Europol and Eurojust. Authorities from 12 countries took action at the same time, targeting both the group’s members and their computer infrastructure. The main participating countries included the US, Germany, France, Italy, and several others across Europe. Eight additional countr...| Web-Performance Blog
Today, February 19, 2024, at 07:30 CET, I discovered that my shared dashboards are no longer working on the Microsoft Azure Portal. This issue was observed across multiple tenants and subscriptions.| Web-Performance Blog
I experienced issues today (2023-12-12) while deploying Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to Azure West Europe. It appears that the CPU type availability is exhausted in West Europe…| Web-Performance Blog
