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WWDC 2018 Recap
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Thu, 06/14/2018 - 05:50 AM

As you may have heard Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference was last week in San Jose, California showcasing all of the latest updates across all of the Apple platforms. Since Apple and Unix technologies are something I am heavily invested in I thought I would take a few minutes and provide an overview of the Siri and Networking updates that came out of WWDC 2018 that I found interesting.

Swift and Python Interop using Dynamic Member Lookup
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Wed, 05/30/2018 - 09:05 PM

Swift and Python Interop using Dynamic Member Lookup

When the Swift language went into development one of the goals it set out to achieve was to provide a better developer experience than the one that currently existed and to provide long term support against legacy C and Objective-C APIs. Now that these goals have been achieved the Swift community is widening it's support to working with dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and Perl in Swift 4.2's language addition for

Capturing a Packet Trace from an iOS Device
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 04/29/2018 - 08:52 PM

Capturing a Packet Trace from an iOS Device

Debugging network activity on an iOS device can be challenging. There are fantastic tools built into Xcode that allow you to to see the data flowing in and out of the device, but troubleshooting network activity at the TCP level can be difficult. Often the best option you have is to perform a packet capture at the router level, but this presents it’s own set of challenges.

Advanced Network Debugging in Xcode
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Sun, 04/22/2018 - 11:03 AM

Debugging network issues no matter what platform you are on can be challenging. Often, the deeper you dig into the operating system the harder it can be to analyze and accurately interpret the network traffic you are seeing. And working with iOS is no different. Debugging iOS traffic from a device to a router or from a device to a server can present many challenges.

Swift NIO, Apple's High Performance, Event-Driven, Networking Framework
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Tue, 03/27/2018 - 06:57 AM

Swift NIO, Apple's High Performance, Event-Driven, Networking Framework

A few weeks ago Apple released a new open source framework on GitHub called Swift-NIO. What is Swift-NIO? The opening line on GitHub describes the project as a cross platform, event driven, non-blocking, application framework to develop high performance networking applications in Swift. So what does that mean?

Python's Unified TLS API
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Submitted by matt_eaton on Thu, 03/08/2018 - 06:13 AM

Over the last 6 months I have noticed a lot of code going into CPython working with SSL and TLS. At first I did not think anything commits and brushed it off as bug fixes and improvements. However, as the months went by and I kept seeing these commits come through it started to get my curiosity piqued about what might be happening in language under the hood.

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Agnostic Development

Matt Eaton Agnostic Development is a blog dedicated to all types of development and coding with a focus on network engineering and advancements in network and system security. Articles on my blog may include research in network security, new technology, technical leadership, and all the things in between.

Today's developers must be well versed in network security and engineering. This blog attempts to take a look at some of the interesting networking topics I am currently researching.