Operating models, time for a change?
Via Forrester: https://go.forrester.com/blogs/the-new-operating-model-is-upon-us/
Uber’s Real-Time Push Platform
A very interesting article on Uber’s new Real-Time Push Platform in which they move away from polling for updates to gRPC-based bi-directional streaming. https://eng.uber.com/real-time-push-platform/
DevSecOops – Stories of DevSecOps Failures and Success
A presentation by Abhay Bhargav on improving application security, making a ‘shift-left’ possible, by supporting developers with security expertise and integrated services. Security engineering, decentralising security, Secure API design, story-driven agile threat models, celebrating failures and more. You can find it here: https://speakerdeck.com/abhaybhargav/devsecoops-stories-of-devsecops-failures-and-success
The DevOps Reading List: Choosing your next DevOps book
An interesting article by Alex Yates. https://octopus.com/blog/devops-reading-list
The Road to DevOps @ING
Recently I had the opportunity to present a webinar on the road to DevOps that we have travelled at ING. You can watch it here:
Chaos Engineering Podcasts
A new podcast series focused on the concept of chaos engineering, focussed on the psychology of chaos engineering and how to learn from incidents. Check it out: https://chaos.community/
What about Kubernetes? Not just containers!
An excellent introduction to the basics of Kubernetes. Check it here: https://luminousmen.com/post/kubernetes-101
Engineering KPIs for Board Room discussions
A very nice article on engineer KPIs: https://codeclimate.com/blog/engineering-kpis-board-deck/
Security architecture anti-patterns
Nice article on security design anti-patterns: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/security-architecture-anti-patterns
DNS Wars, really?
The golden rule: keep the DNS server that you are interrogating daily as close to you as possible (in your home or office, if you can; if not, at your local ISP). A very nice keynote on DNS Wars, take a look: