by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 19, 2019 | DevOps, Secrets, Security, Strategy
Thar be Dragons in Application Secret Delivery Processes I am pleased to share the 2019 State of Application Secret Delivery and Audit Practices report with you. As you may recall, I have been investigating DevOps Practitioners’ processes for delivering secrets to... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 17, 2019 | DevOps, Systems
Contraption by John Barkiple Configuration is data interpreted by a program to change its behavior so that it supports a particular use case. Problems Configuration Solves Configuration solves problems for both program developers and operators. Most program developers... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 10, 2019 | DevOps, Strategy
Reading Time: 2 minutes Was Digital Transformation a good idea? Many organizations are making fundamental changes to the way their applications are structured and operated. These changes are intended to address real problems. Structurally, monolithic applications can... by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 8, 2019 | DevOps, Infrastructure As Code, Secrets
Reading Time: 2.5 minutes I’m getting internal reviews and putting the finishing touches on the Secret Delivery Research report, which I plan to publish this week. Today I’ll try to help with one of the biggest challenge DevOps practitioners face when... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jul 3, 2019 | DevOps, Systems
I don’t know if this is a ‘guilty’ confession or not, but I love debugging hard problems in software systems. Some of these problems took a long time to debug. Now when someone describes a particularly interesting situation I smile and say,... 
by Stephen Kuenzli | Jun 19, 2019 | DevOps, Docker
Avg Reading Time: 5 minutes An application container is an isolated, resource-limited application execution context by host OS that has been unpacked and configured from an image. That’s a highly technical definition that I’ll break down shortly, but... 