About me

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My name’s Peter. I’m a passionate software developer especially interested in all kind of networking stuff but also asynchronous data processing, software architecture, testing and automatic software quality analysis and many more.

I’m the author of InetMock and Goveal (more on projects) but I’m also trying to contribute to other open source projects.

Projects

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INetMock

INetMock started as an resource/container friendly alternative to INetSim. While working on a project we tried to reduce analysis complexity coming from ‘noise’ in the network traffic recorded to a central INetSim cluster we were running. We decided to decentralize the internet simulation, put it into a container image and run directly on every host multiple times in virtual networks. Unfortunately INetSim has a relatively huge memory footprint (~1GB) which alone wouldn’t been a showstopper but in combination with a relatively long startup time I felt having something smaller could be beneficial so I started to implement a prototype in Go.

2 years later INetMock has grown to kind of a full router (supporting DNS and DHCP) with support for faking HTTP/s (direct or proxy requests) requests. Furthermore it is able to record PCAP files for further analysis and it emits events for every handled request.

It comes with a descriptive configuration language (embedded in a YAML configuration) to setup the behavior of all components and to define health checks/integration tests to validate your configuration.

Apart from working as a router it can also be used e.g. for integration tests of HTTP APIs, DNS/DoT/DoH clients and most likely other things I haven’t even thought about.

Goveal

Goveal is similar to reveal-md or previously GitPitch but obviously in Go. Originally I used GitPitch but then the author decided to go with a commercial license. The commercial license made sense when I was working at the university but after that it didn’t really make sense any more. So I decided to replace it with a small custom CLI rendering the markdown into a static HTML file and serving it as a local web server (basically).

Later on I refined it more and more. Currently I’m working on a rewrite which adds e.g. 1st class support for mermaid-js diagrams in slides.

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About me

Projects

INetMock

Goveal