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donnemartin/system-design-primer

Learn how to design large-scale systems. Prep for the system design interview. Includes Anki flashcards.

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2026-03-20
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1 list mention
First commit
2017-02-26
License
NOASSERTION
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613 open
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58,120
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343 commits
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bregman-arie/devops-exercises

Linux, Jenkins, AWS, SRE, Prometheus, Docker, Python, Ansible, Git, Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenStack, SQL, NoSQL, Azure, GCP, DNS, Elastic, Network, Virtualization. DevOps Interview Questions

Updated
2025-12-27
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1 list mention
First commit
2019-10-03
License
NOASSERTION
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56 open
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20,273
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796 commits
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httpie/cli

🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.

Updated
2024-12-17
Lists
7 list mentions
First commit
2012-02-25
License
BSD-3-Clause
Issues
338 open
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4,004
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1,797 commits
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certbot/certbot

Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.

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2026-08-28
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2 list mentions
First commit
2012-05-17
License
NOASSERTION
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188 open
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3,509
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11,430 commits
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netbox-community/netbox

The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/

AI dev
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2026-08-29
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3 list mentions
First commit
2016-03-01
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Apache-2.0
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196 open
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3,112
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15,622 commits
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OWASP/mastg

The OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG) is a comprehensive manual for mobile app security testing and reverse engineering. It describes technical processes for verifying the OWASP Mobile Security Weakness Enumeration (MASWE) weaknesses, which are in alignment with the OWASP MASVS.

AI dev
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2026-08-14
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2 list mentions
First commit
2016-10-01
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CC-BY-SA-4.0
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235 open
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2,783
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10,722 commits
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aboul3la/Sublist3r

Fast subdomains enumeration tool for penetration testers

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2024-08-02
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2 list mentions
First commit
2015-12-15
License
GPL-2.0
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253 open
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2,216
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138 commits
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bunkerity/bunkerweb

🛡️ Open-source and cloud-native Web Application Firewall (WAF)

AI dev
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2026-08-27
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4 list mentions
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2019-08-20
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AGPL-3.0
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164 open
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641
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10,504 commits
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OWASP/wstg

The Web Security Testing Guide is a comprehensive Open Source guide to testing the security of web applications and web services.

Updated
2026-08-27
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1 list mention
First commit
2017-05-14
License
CC-BY-SA-4.0
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31 open
Forks
1,669
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1,278 commits
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longld/peda

PEDA - Python Exploit Development Assistance for GDB

Stack
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2024-07-29
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1 list mention
First commit
2012-08-03
License
NOASSERTION
Issues
76 open
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826
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119 commits
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devanshbatham/Awesome-Bugbounty-Writeups

A curated list of bugbounty writeups (Bug type wise) , inspired from https://github.com/ngalongc/bug-bounty-reference

Updated
2023-08-06
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2020-05-04
License
Unknown
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12 open
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1,218
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59 commits
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AutoRecon/AutoRecon

AutoRecon is a multi-threaded network reconnaissance tool which performs automated enumeration of services.

Stack
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2026-01-28
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1 list mention
First commit
2019-03-01
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
42 open
Forks
972
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297 commits
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lanmaster53/recon-ng

Open Source Intelligence gathering tool aimed at reducing the time spent harvesting information from open sources.

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2024-11-01
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4 list mentions
First commit
2012-10-24
License
GPL-3.0
Issues
38 open
Forks
916
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1,028 commits
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OTRF/ThreatHunter-Playbook

A community-driven, open-source project to share detection logic, adversary tradecraft and resources to make detection development more efficient.

Updated
2026-01-12
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2017-03-28
License
MIT
Issues
6 open
Forks
861
Commits
477 commits
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Netflix/security_monkey

Security Monkey monitors AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and GitHub orgs for assets and their changes over time.

Archived
Updated
2021-02-11
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2014-06-27
License
Apache-2.0
Issues
84 open
Forks
780
Commits
1,660 commits
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nixawk/pentest-wiki

PENTEST-WIKI is a free online security knowledge library for pentesters / researchers. If you have a good idea, please share it with others.

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GitHub topics
Updated
2023-09-13
Lists
2 list mentions
First commit
2014-11-23
License
MIT
Issues
21 open
Forks
930
Commits
163 commits
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arthepsy/ssh-audit

SSH server auditing (banner, key exchange, encryption, mac, compression, compatibility, security, etc)

Stack
Updated
2024-06-28
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2015-12-23
License
MIT
Issues
31 open
Forks
264
Commits
165 commits
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sc0tfree/mentalist

Mentalist is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation. It utilizes common human paradigms for constructing passwords and can output the full wordlist as well as rules compatible with Hashcat and John the Ripper.

Updated
2026-04-14
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2017-11-05
License
MIT
Issues
11 open
Forks
259
Commits
23 commits
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mozilla/cipherscan

A very simple way to find out which SSL ciphersuites are supported by a target.

Stack
Updated
2025-06-09
Lists
1 list mention
First commit
2013-07-17
License
MPL-2.0
Issues
36 open
Forks
266
Commits
423 commits
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