Tim Burns
Interesting Security Blogs
A couple of interesting security blogs: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/ https://shehackspurple.medium.com/
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Tim Burns
Plan-Do-Check-Act
Image from PDCA - Wikipedia Walter Sherwart and W. Edwards Deming were two American engineers who founded modern statistical quality...
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JetBrains Security Breach
While I was hoping to spend a focused day on development and writing, I was greeted by this: Widely Used Software Company May Be Entry...
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Agile is the new Taylorism
I ran across an article in Medium that draws interesting parallels between Taylorism and modern Agile Scrum. Tobias Higbie The Labor Age,...
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This Machine Kills Fascists
My Work in the New Year Woodie Guthrie famously had "This Machine Kills Fascists" painted on his guitar. He stood up to Fascism whenever...
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Make DevOps your New Year's Resolution!
Diagram of the Full DevOps Lifecycle Continuous Automation is the Foundation of DevOps Building a DevOps Environment can be scary because...
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After Certification - Start writing D&D
My Post Vaccine Goals - Play more D&D I'd like to write levels 1-10 campaigns in the Wildemount so when we all get COVID vaccines, I can...
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There are cool people in Security
Take a moment to appreciate these tools. https://pgpkeygen.com/ https://onetimesecret.com/
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BI versus Data Science
BI is easier because you are visualizing data with tools. Data Science is actionable because you are deep-diving into the data and...
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Serverless 2020 Highlights
This dog cannot find his favorite fetch toy (where is it?) Lambda Functions Good point from the AWS presentation: Lambda responds to...
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Automating Serverless Deployments with AWS CodeBuild
Photo by Shawn Lee on Unsplash I remember when DevOps was a new idea and a colleague said, "DevOps separates out the real developers." I...
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Scrutinize Every Cost
Photo by Maria Hochgesang on Unsplash I worked for a $100 million company that restricted development team accounts to $100/month. At...
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Scaling Takes Courage - Don't Settle for the Easy Option
Source: CloudGuru - Professional Architect Cert 2020 Very few organizations fill in the green cogs in the above picture. Why? It takes...
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A Monk once Said - If you change code in deployment, stop
Photo by Amanda Jones on Unsplash Also from https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS-Reliability-Pillar.pdf Deploy using...
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Please use Cloud Formation - for Future You
Future you always hates it when you don't use Cloud Formation.
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Cloud Adoption Framework Friday
I'm spending the day making up time on my AWS certification. One challenge of an architect is having a mental model of how to build a...
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Rhode Island used to be in Avalonia
Fun fact: Rhode Island was once in a continent of Avalonia, along with the UK and Ireland. Image Source: Malaga Bay
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More data than you can shake a stick at
https://registry.opendata.aws/ It cost me $0.77 to query this data with Athena to find out the highest levels of Ozone in the US for a...
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Fake Data
Create some fake data to entertain your friends and family. https://faker.readthedocs.io/en/master/ Actually, no one cares, but create...
