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Trusting Your Ingredients @DevOpsDays Columbus

Trusting Your Ingredients @DevOpsDays Columbus

Shift your perspective on security in the realm of development. In this eye-opening piece, discover the parallel responsibilities between a developer's role in app security and a chef's task in creating the perfect cheesecake. Explore how both domains share challenges in managing ingredients, preparations, and recipes, emphasizing the importance of a secure kitchen and codebase.

As a developer, I always thought that security, like documentation, would be done by someone else. While that might have been true in the past, in today’s world that model no longer works. As a developer you’re responsible for the security of your app. Security in this case should be seen in the broadest sense of the word, ranging from licenses to software packages. A chef creating cheesecake has similar challenges. The ingredients of a cheesecake are similar to the software packages a developer uses. The preparation is similar to the DevOps pipeline, and recipe is similar to the licenses for developers. Messing up any of those means you have a messy kitchen, or a data breach!

How to send CloudFormation events to Wavefront using AWS Lambda

How to send CloudFormation events to Wavefront using AWS Lambda

Supercharge your AWS CloudFormation deployments! Set up SNS events to capture CloudFormation events, and with AWS Lambda, seamlessly feed them into Wavefront for intuitive visualization. Enhance observability, troubleshoot faster, and ensure smooth Friday deployments. 🚀 #AWS #CloudFormation #Wavefront

Imagine this, it’s 5pm on a Friday afternoon and while you really want to go enjoy the weekend, you also need to deploy a new version of your app to production. Using AWS CloudFormation (CF), you add a new instance to your fleet of EC2 instances to run your app.