Episode 29: Live Episode with Sean Yeoh - Assetnote Engineer

Episode 29: In this episode of Critical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast sit down with Assetnote Engineer Sean Yeoh, and pick his brain about what he's learned on his development journey. We talk about the place and importance of message brokers, and which ones we like best, as well as his engineering philosophy regarding bottleneck prevention and the importance of pursuing optimization. Don't miss this episode of terrific technical tips!Follow us on twitter at: @ctbbpodcastWe're new to this podcasting thing, so feel free to send us any feedback here: [email protected] to YTCracker for the awesome intro music!------ Links ------Follow your hosts Rhynorater & Teknogeek on twitter:https://twitter.com/0xteknogeekhttps://twitter.com/rhynoraterToday’s Guest:https://twitter.com/seanyeohAssetnotehttps://www.assetnote.io/https://twitter.com/assetnoteXKCD automation graphhttps://xkcd.com/1319/Github repositoryhttps://github.com/alex/what-happens-whenArticle about Queueshttps://archive.is/Nan4eNATShttps://nats.io/MongoDBhttps://www.mongodb.com/Timestamps:(00:00:00) Introduction(00:01:18) Story of Assetnote(00:05:20) Message Brokers and event-driven architectures(00:11:15) Preventing bottlenecks and pursuing optimization(00:21:35) Using a profiler(00:28:30) Choosing a Message Broker(00:33:00) Kubernetes and Conntrack Limits(00:37:13) Databases(00:46:30) Bug bounty tips: Sub-domain vs. IP Address(00:51:15) Engineering quandaries(00:53:38) DNS Wildcards