Don MacVittie believes we’ve made progress integrating security across the SDLC, but there’s still a ways to go.
The New(ish) Complexity
The API economy and microservices architectures, led by Agile and DevOps, have introduced a massive amount of hidden complexity. I call it hidden complexity because we have a tendency in IT to focus on the problems in front of us, resolve them, then focus on the new problem in front of us. This leaves technical […]
Make GitHub Backups Part of Your Development Process
GitHub’s platform is the largest host of source code in the world, hosting over 190 Million repositories. So much of the code we rely on every day is hosted there. You are, in all likelihood, using it. But what would you do if, one day, all of the project code GitHub stored for you disappeared? […]
What the Current DDoS Landscape Means for DevOps
Businesses, governments, hospitals, schools, charities and even individuals—they’re all the same to a DDoS perpetrator. If you have a website, it’s likely to be targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack at some point. DDoS has the potential to shut down your site for days and create havoc with an organization. They can […]
DevOps Lessons from the Dyn Attack Fiasco
Dyn’s DNS servers suffered a major DDoS attack last week, slowing a host of major websites. Does the drive for DevOps automation increase the risk of similar attacks? Maybe, but it doesn’t have to. As almost every geek knows by now, a DDoS attack on Oct. 21 overwhelmed Dyn’s DNS servers, and websites that depended […]
How DevOps Prevents DDoS Attacks
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the most pervasive and difficult attacks to prevent. The attack uses many distributed endpoints and/or systems to flood a web domain, application or service with excessive service requests or application calls. There are limits to the amount of bandwidth or the number of service requests or […]