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Okta IAM
ACM.164 Creating Okta administrators with separation of duties to prevent privilege escalation.
https://medium.com/cloud-security/okta-iam-d373122aaab5
Employee-facing Mutual TLS
A discussion on the implementation of mutual Transport Layer Security (TLS) to secure employee-facing services. The authors describe the challenges they faced in securing services that were not public-facing, as well as the benefits of using mutual TLS for authentication and authorization. They also provide details on the technical implementation of mutual TLS and the tools they used, including Hashicorp's Vault and Envoy proxy. Finally, they highlight some of the key takeaways from their experience, including the importance of clear documentation and the need to balance security and usability for internal services.
https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/employee-facing-mutual-tls-8643fe0cc0f9
Can I recover a branch after its deletion in Git?
If you canceled all local and remote GIT branches, see own to restore one.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3640764/can-i-recover-a-branch-after-its-deletion-in-git
vsql
A database is written in the V programming language that offers Postgres protocol compatibility.
https://github.com/elliotchance/vsql
Linux 6.2 Makes Apple Silicon Support Official
Version 6.2 of the Linux kernel has been released. The main improvement is official support for Apple Silicon hardware.
https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-6-2-makes-apple-silicon-support-official/
DevZero Wins 2023 DEVIES Award with DevZero Serverless Platform
DevZero's win is evidence of their leading role in the growth and innovation of the software industry,” said Jonathan Pasky.
https://enterprisetalk.com/news/devzero-wins-2023-devies-award-with-devzero-serverless-platform/
Cado Security Featured on CRN’s 2023 Security 100 List
The company's platform allows for the automation of forensic data capture and processing across the cloud, containers, and serverless.
https://www.silicon.co.uk/press-release/cado-security-featured-on-crns-2023-security-100-list
Pushing Physical Limits with AWS Snowball Edge
AWS Snowball Edge is explosion resistant.
Okta MFA
ACM.165 Additional MFA options (like Yubikey with no seed) and enforcing MFA policies.
https://medium.com/cloud-security/okta-mfa-770ff702ff6
Battle Of The Backends: Rust vs. Go vs. C# vs. Kotlin
A fresh and interesting test between some of the most popular backend programming languages. A big surprise was that Go with Echo is a little bit faster than Rust and Rocket! I am surprised by how well Kotlin and C# and .NET Minimal API performed.
https://www.inovex.de/de/blog/rust-vs-go-vs-c-vs-kotlin/
Who writes Linux and open-source software?
AMD; Intel; Google; Linaro, the main Arm Linux development organization; Meta; and Red Hat are the first companies contributing to Linux.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/24/who_writes_open_source/
The Future of CycloneDX: Previewing v1.5 and 1.6
Test In Production — The Ideal Monitoring
The importance of testing in production. Plus, why other forms of testing are necessary but probably not sufficient.
https://nagaraj-tantri.medium.com/test-in-production-the-ideal-monitoring-587b23a541f9
A role for all your EC2 instances
https://awsteele.com/blog/2023/02/20/a-role-for-all-your-ec2-instances.html
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