I spent 20 years slaving away at companies doing development, maintenance, troubleshooting, architecture, management, and whatever else needed doing. For all those years I was a permanent hire, workin...

The field of site reliability engineering originated at Google with Ben Treynor Sloss, who founded a site reliability team after joining the company in 2003, but the practice has spread across most or...

If you’ve got something valuable, you can pretty much guarantee that someone will be looking to carry out unauthorised activities around it, and cloud workloads are exposed to just as many security ri...

If you Google “DevSecOps”, and in particular if you read the typical security vendor blogs, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the term is all about automation and tooling. However, in much the same ...

When the White House says something is a threat, many people’s first reaction is to work out precisely what it is that the president and his aides are really trying to distract us from.

We can get overly obsessed with uptime. We can actually set service level objectives (SLOs) too high. If we zero in on five-nines across the board, we risk compromising our teammates’ ability to innov...

In this tutorial, the last in our series on the External Secrets project, we will configure Azure KeyVault in order to have a safe way to access secrets, and then configure External-Secrets to fetch i...

The pandemic accelerated the economic transition to digital-native services and products. Across industries and categories, organisations aspired to scale their development performance in the face of ...

A few years ago, I managed a user-experience designer who excelled at design but was wholly unfamiliar with the user end of cybersecurity software. It mystified him why I would overrule a straightforw...