A podcast about cloud, AI, and Kubernetes
Three senior cloud engineers talking about the systems they run, the problems they hit and how you can avoid known traps.
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Security, better late than never
Alejandro Vallecilla wrote that companies delay security until a merger, an incident or a law forces it. We go through the EU law that makes a security bug a product defect, and what a Security Hub score is worth without a risk assessment.
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- Article6 min readSecurity, better late than neverSecurity controls without a risk assessment create noise instead of protection. Cloud teams now have to account for supply chains, vulnerable dependencies, and AI agents that can act across internal systems.
- Article5 min readThe power of inflated self-assessmentThe loud colleague who has an opinion on everything, and the engineer who has spent five years inside a control plane and says nothing in the design meeting. Both are misjudging themselves, and a paper by Kruger and Dunning explains the psychological aspect behind their behaviors. Telling somebody they are wrong is not the right intervention. Telling them they are experts does not make them experts. Training them is the right intervention and the right path to make them experts.
- Article7 min readThe shutdown plan is seven years oldA legacy ecommerce core was scheduled for shutdown in 2019 and has more systems depending on it now than it had then. Three replacement projects put it there. Outlived three CIOs, one office move, and a vendor that is not reachable. The cost of keeping it is growing, split across ten cost centres, and attributable to nobody. The cost of removing it requires one owner and one budget line, but yet, the legacy runs today.
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Alejandro Vallecilla
AWS & Platform Engineering
Builds AWS and Kubernetes foundations, and argues about what they cost.
Fernando Gonçalves
AWS Solutions Architecture
Helps companies building on AWS scale without surprises.
Sepehr Lorestani
AWS & Kubernetes Engineering
Builds robust Kubernetes infrastructure. Does not hesitate to dot the i's and cross the t's.