https://ferkakta.dev/tags/archaeology/Recent content in Archaeology on ferkakta.devHugoen-USCopyright fizz.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0500https://ferkakta.dev/zombie-java-app-serving-scrapers/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0500https://ferkakta.dev/zombie-java-app-serving-scrapers/<p>I found it because of the load balancers.</p> <p>Six of them on the dev account, all legacy. Four Classic ELBs from 2015–2016, two ALBs from 2017. I was auditing them as part of a finops sweep — checking whether anything still needed them. The answer was no. Five had zero requests in all of 2026. The sixth, an ALB called <code>staging-passthru-ssl</code>, had 150.</p> <p>150 requests in three months is background noise. But I wanted to know what was making it. The ALB had four target groups: <code>staging-web</code>, <code>oracle</code>, <code>oraclev2</code>, <code>oraclev3</code>. Three were empty — no registered targets at all. <code>oracle</code> had one instance: <code>i-0abc123def456ghi7</code>, a t2.medium named <code>oracle-api</code>. It was unhealthy. The ALB was health-checking it and the health checks were failing.</p>