An Introduction to Database as a Service with an Emphasis on OpenStack Using Trove
Explore Database as a Service with OpenStack Trove, covering architecture, benefits, and practical considerations for enterprise adoption. Gain insights into DBaaS implementation and management.
It Was Never Going to Work, So Let’s Have Some Tea
Humorous exploration of large system administration challenges, advocating for embracing limitations and focusing on achievable goals instead of unrealistic expectations.
3D Tracking via Body Radio Reflections
WiTrack: Innovative system for 3D motion tracking through walls using radio reflections. Achieves high accuracy without wearables, bridging gap between RF localization and motion capture technologies.
The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work
Exploring cryptography's political and moral dimensions, emphasizing its power to reshape societal structures and calling for a renewed focus on addressing mass surveillance through innovative research and ethical considerations.
Consul as a Monitoring Solution
Explore Consul's advanced monitoring capabilities, including intelligent health checks, automatic traffic routing, and problem-solving without human intervention for efficient cluster management.
The Knowledge - Towards a Culture of Engineering Documentation
Strategies for improving engineering documentation: building platforms, integrating with toolchains, and fostering a culture where documentation is essential to development.
So You Want to Be a Wizard
Discover strategies for effective debugging, information gathering, and problem-solving in SRE. Learn to leverage curiosity, source code analysis, and organizational understanding to excel in your role.
Reliable Data Processing with Minimal Toil
Explore strategies for safer, automated batch job processing across millions of users, featuring insights from Google and Slack on canarying, rollouts, and validations.
Improving Observability in Your Observability - Simple Tips for SREs
Practical tips for SREs to enhance data visualization in dashboards, drawing inspiration from historical figures and avoiding common pitfalls to improve information density and credibility.
DevOps Ten Years After - Review of a Failure
Revisiting the origins of DevOps: Allspaw and Hammond reflect on the movement's evolution, challenges, and future prospects a decade after their influential talk.
Practical Kubernetes Security Learning using Kubernetes Goat
Explore Kubernetes security vulnerabilities using Kubernetes Goat, a "vulnerable by design" environment. Learn to assess and improve cloud-native infrastructure security posture through hands-on practice.
Exploiting Brain Vulnerabilities - Chaotic Good at Scale
Strategies for introducing new concepts and changing minds across diverse groups, using change management, organizational transformation, and communication techniques for effective cultural navigation.
5 Years of Cgroup v2 - The Future of Linux Resource Control
Explore cgroup v2's impact on Linux resource control, including challenges, solutions, and real-world applications in large-scale systems and containerization technologies.
BPF Internals
Deep dive into Extended BPF (eBPF) internals, exploring its implementation, instruction set, and usage in performance observability tools. Covers kernel components, event sources, and user space interactions.
Sustainable Software Engineering
Explore the intersection of reliability, sustainability, and environmental impact in software engineering, with practical strategies for SREs to champion all three aspects in their teams.
Pages from a Sword-Maker's Notebook Part II
Explore covert intelligence gathering techniques, from anti-virus evasion to counter-intelligence, with practical code examples in Golang. Learn methodologies and technical solutions for long-term surveillance operations.
This Is Not Your Grandfather's SIEM
Explore modern CSOC analytic platforms, their design considerations, and evolving approaches to security event monitoring, analysis, and response in complex cybersecurity environments.
SIGINT on a Budget - Listening in, Gathering Data and Watching for Less Than $100
Building a robust SIGINT platform using affordable hardware like Raspberry Pi to capture, demodulate, and analyze radio signals across various frequencies, with practical applications and insights from data collected in Manhattan.
Profiling and Detecting All Things SSL with JA3
Explore SSL/TLS fingerprinting with JA3, learn its capabilities for detecting malware and C2 servers, and discover the new JA3S for server fingerprinting. Enhance your network security skills.
IOT RCE - A Study With Disney
Explore IoT device vulnerabilities using Disney's Circle and Foscam as case studies. Learn novel attack techniques, including SSL bypasses, SSID injection, and cloud routing abuse. Discuss IoT devices' use of offensive tools.
Quantitative Comparable Software Risk Reporting
Automated analysis frameworks for assessing software security, empowering consumers and professionals with scientific data on effectiveness of security techniques and overall product safety.