Two weeks ago we ran the second edition of our internal HackWeek, and it was fantastic. Last year’s event was great fun and produced projects we still use; going into this year’s HackWeek we anticipated a leveling up, and weren’t disappointed. We figured we’d talk a little bit about the week, and discuss some of the “hacks”. Our HackWeek parameters are simple: We downtools on all but the most essential work (primarily anything customer-facing) and instead scope and build something. …
Month: December 2018
Dan Geer famously declared that security is “the absence of unmitigatable surprise”. He said it while discussing how dependence is the root source of risk, where increasing system dependencies change the nature of surprises that emanate from composed systems. Recently, two of our servers “surprised” us due to an unexpected dependence, and we thought this incident was worth talking about. (We also discuss how to mitigate such surprises going forward). Background:Every Canary deployment is made up of at least two …