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  blast radius software engineering: The Software Engineer's Guidebook Gergely Orosz, 2024-02-04 In my first few years as a developer I assumed that hard work was all I needed. Then I was passed over for a promotion and my manager couldn’t give me feedback on what areas to improve, so I could get to the senior engineer level. I was frustrated; even bitter: not as much about missing the promotion, but because of the lack of guidance. By the time I became a manager, I was determined to support engineers reporting to me with the kind of feedback and support I wish I would have gotten years earlier. And I did. While my team tripled over the next two years, people became visibly better engineers, and this progression was clear from performance reviews and promotions. This book is a summary of the advice I’ve given to software engineers over the years – and then some more. This book follows the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the staff/principle/distinguished level. It summarizes what I’ve learned as a developer and how I’ve approached coaching engineers at different stages of their careers. We cover “soft” skills which become increasingly important as your seniority increases, and the “hard” parts of the job, like software engineering concepts and approaches which help you grow professionally. The names of levels and their expectations can – and do! – vary across companies. The higher “tier” a business is, the more tends to be expected of engineers, compared to lower tier places. For example, the “senior engineer” level has notoriously high expectations at. Google (L5 level) and Meta (E5 level,) compared to lower-tier companies. If you work at a higher-tier business, it may be useful to read the chapters about higher levels, and not only the level you’re currently interested in. The book is composed of six standalone parts, each made up of several chapters: Part 1: Developer Career Fundamentals Part 2: The Competent Software Developer Part 3: The Well-Rounded Senior Engineer Part 4: The Pragmatic Tech Lead Part 5: Role Model Staff and Principal Engineers Part 6: Conclusion Parts 1 and 6 apply to all engineering levels, from entry-level software developer, to principal-and-above engineer. Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5 cover increasingly senior engineering levels and group together topics in chapters, such as “Software Engineering,” “Collaboration,” “Getting Things Done,” etc. Naming and levels vary, but the principles of what makes a great engineer who is impactful at the individual, team, and organizational levels, are remarkably constant. No matter where you are in your career, I hope this book provides a fresh perspective and new ideas on how to grow as an engineer. Praise for the book “From performance reviews to P95 latency, from team dynamics to testing, Gergely demystifies all aspects of a software career. This book is well named: it really does feel like the missing guidebook for the whole industry.” – Tanya Reilly, senior principal engineer and author of The Staff Engineer's Path Spanning a huge range of topics from technical to social in a concise manner, this belongs on the desk of any software engineer looking to grow their impact and their career. You'll reach for it again and again for sage advice in any situation. – James Stanier, Director of Engineering at Shopify, author of TheEngineeringManager.com
  blast radius software engineering: Software Engineering Handbook Yusuf Aytas, Ender Demirkaya, 2024-05-08 A software engineering career doesn’t follow a straight line. Every phase comes with its own challenges and mysteries. Missteps can cost engineers promotions, compensation, jobs, relationships, and more in their personal lives. Conversely, understanding opportunities can boost engineers’ income, title, career, experience, scope, and influence. Many engineers struggle to navigate pivotal moments upon encountering them for the first time. They go for trial and error. We wrote this book to eliminate such uncertainties and provide guidance through critical moments, such as the following: - How to compare startups and large corporations - How to evaluate offer letters - When to switch teams or jobs - How to turn conflicts to your advantage - How to delegate or manage up - How to ship projects in confidence - How to untangle a chaotic project - How to recover from a career downturn - How to balance your workload This book will help you embrace vital moments with clarity, transform challenges into opportunities, and accelerate your career journey confidently without burning yourself out.
  blast radius software engineering: Modern Software Engineering David Farley, 2021-11-16 Improve Your Creativity, Effectiveness, and Ultimately, Your Code In Modern Software Engineering, continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively, manage it more successfully, and genuinely improve the quality of their applications, their lives, and the lives of their colleagues. Writing for programmers, managers, and technical leads at all levels of experience, Farley illuminates durable principles at the heart of effective software development. He distills the discipline into two core exercises: learning and exploration and managing complexity. For each, he defines principles that can help you improve everything from your mindset to the quality of your code, and describes approaches proven to promote success. Farley's ideas and techniques cohere into a unified, scientific, and foundational approach to solving practical software development problems within realistic economic constraints. This general, durable, and pervasive approach to software engineering can help you solve problems you haven't encountered yet, using today's technologies and tomorrow's. It offers you deeper insight into what you do every day, helping you create better software, faster, with more pleasure and personal fulfillment. Clarify what you're trying to accomplish Choose your tools based on sensible criteria Organize work and systems to facilitate continuing incremental progress Evaluate your progress toward thriving systems, not just more legacy code Gain more value from experimentation and empiricism Stay in control as systems grow more complex Achieve rigor without too much rigidity Learn from history and experience Distinguish good new software development ideas from bad ones Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.
  blast radius software engineering: Think Like a Software Engineering Manager Akanksha Gupta, 2024-08-06 Unlock your full potential as an effective, efficient, and inspiring leader, and be the software engineering manager that your team deserves! Most development teams are only as good as their leader. In this practical guide, you’ll explore all aspects of the software engineering manager’s job, from operational practices to the core skills of handling humans. Think Like a Software Engineering Manager is full of all the skills you’ll need to thrive in software leadership, including: People and performance management Empathy and feedback Delegation and learning to let go Hiring amazing engineers and handling attrition Collaborating with cross-functional partners Managing expectations at all levels Implementing engineering and operational excellence Time and organizational change management Experienced team leader Akanksha Gupta helps you explore whether software engineering management is the right move for your career, guides you through preparing for the position, and gives you all the tools you need to thrive in the role. Thought-provoking exercises help you apply what you learn to your daily professional life, and prepare you for making the big decisions about software. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology A software engineering manager needs to be an amazing communicator, an effective decision maker, and a thoughtful mentor. Your success depends on your ability to evaluate and manage projects, motivate and lead your team, and coolly handle whatever crisis each new day brings. It’s a big transition, and this book will guide you every step of the way. About the book Think Like a Software Engineering Manager teaches you how to hire, train, and lead a successful development team. You’ll start with building and managing your team to maximize performance. You’ll then quickly progress to strategies for delivering large scale projects, cultivating excellence in your projects, and managing change. Author Akanksha Gupta’s battle stories and industry anecdotes from her work at Amazon, Audible, Robinhood, and Microsoft reveal how the experts handle the biggest engineering management challenges. What's inside People and performance management Hiring amazing engineers and handling attrition Collaborating with cross-functional partners Practice for success with insightful exercises About the reader For new and aspiring software engineering managers. About the author Akanksha Gupta is an engineering leader at Amazon AWS. She has served as an engineering manager at Robinhood, Audible, and Microsoft and passionately champions the cause of empowering women within the tech industry. The technical editor on this book was Bruce Bergman. Table of Contents PART 1 1 Exploring the engineering manager role 2 Individual contributor to engineering manager 3 Managing people, teams, and yourself 4 Managing performance 5 Delegation: Learn to let go 6 Rewards and recognition 7 Hiring 8 Handling attrition PART 2 9 Working with cross-functional partners 10 Project management, execution, and delivery 11 Managing expectations PART 3 12 Engineering and operational excellence 13 Organizational change management 14 Time management 15 Beyond this book: Grow yourself
  blast radius software engineering: Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops Rashina Hoda, 2019-08-30 This open access book constitutes the research workshops, doctoral symposium and panel summaries presented at the 20th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2019, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in May 2019. XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a hybrid forum where agile researchers, academics, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. Following this history, for both researchers and seasoned practitioners XP 2019 provided an informal environment to network, share, and discover trends in Agile for the next 20 years. Research papers and talks submissions were invited for the three XP 2019 research workshops, namely, agile transformation, autonomous teams, and large scale agile. This book includes 15 related papers. In addition, a summary for each of the four panels at XP 2019 is included. The panels were on security and privacy; the impact of the agile manifesto on culture, education, and software practices; business agility – agile’s next frontier; and Agile – the next 20 years.
  blast radius software engineering: Summary of David Farley's Modern Software Engineering Milkyway Media, 2024-01-22 Get the Summary of David Farley's Modern Software Engineering in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. David Farley's Modern Software Engineering posits that software development is a learning process best approached through scientific methods. Farley defines software engineering as the application of empirical techniques to solve practical problems efficiently and economically, emphasizing the management of complexity through principles like modularity, cohesion, and loose coupling. He advocates for a continuous learning environment supported by iteration, feedback, incrementalism, experimentation, and empiricism...
  blast radius software engineering: Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics Rick Howard, 2023-04-19 The first expert discussion of the foundations of cybersecurity In Cybersecurity First Principles, Rick Howard, the Chief Security Officer, Chief Analyst, and Senior fellow at The Cyberwire, challenges the conventional wisdom of current cybersecurity best practices, strategy, and tactics and makes the case that the profession needs to get back to first principles. The author convincingly lays out the arguments for the absolute cybersecurity first principle and then discusses the strategies and tactics required to achieve it. In the book, you'll explore: Infosec history from the 1960s until the early 2020s and why it has largely failed What the infosec community should be trying to achieve instead The arguments for the absolute and atomic cybersecurity first principle The strategies and tactics to adopt that will have the greatest impact in pursuing the ultimate first principle Case studies through a first principle lens of the 2015 OPM hack, the 2016 DNC Hack, the 2019 Colonial Pipeline hack, and the Netflix Chaos Monkey resilience program A top to bottom explanation of how to calculate cyber risk for two different kinds of companies This book is perfect for cybersecurity professionals at all levels: business executives and senior security professionals, mid-level practitioner veterans, newbies coming out of school as well as career-changers seeking better career opportunities, teachers, and students.
  blast radius software engineering: Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering Tarek Sobh, Khaled Elleithy, 2007-09-27 Advances in Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering This book includes the proceedings of the International Conference on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS’05). The proceedings are a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, systems sciences and engineering, information technology, parallel and distributed computing and web-based programming. SCSS’05 was part of the International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE’05) (www. cisse2005. org), the World’s first Engineering/Computing and Systems Research E-Conference. CISSE’05 was the first high-caliber Research Conference in the world to be completely conducted online in real-time via the internet. CISSE’05 received 255 research paper submissions and the final program included 140 accepted papers, from more than 45 countries. The concept and format of CISSE’05 were very exciting and ground-breaking. The PowerPoint presentations, final paper manuscripts and time schedule for live presentations over the web had been available for 3 weeks prior to the start of the conference for all registrants, so they could choose the presentations they want to attend and think about questions that they might want to ask. The live audio presentations were also recorded and were part of the permanent CISSE archive, which also included all power point presentations and papers. SCSS’05 provided a virtual forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of the-art research on Systems, Computing Sciences and Software Engineering.
  blast radius software engineering: Cloud-native Computing Pethuru Raj, Skylab Vanga, Akshita Chaudhary, 2022-10-06 Explore the cloud-native paradigm for event-driven and service-oriented applications In Cloud-Native Computing: How to Design, Develop, and Secure Microservices and Event-Driven Applications, a team of distinguished professionals delivers a comprehensive and insightful treatment of cloud-native computing technologies and tools. With a particular emphasis on the Kubernetes platform, as well as service mesh and API gateway solutions, the book demonstrates the need for reliability assurance in any distributed environment. The authors explain the application engineering and legacy modernization aspects of the technology at length, along with agile programming models. Descriptions of MSA and EDA as tools for accelerating software design and development accompany discussions of how cloud DevOps tools empower continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. Cloud-Native Computing also introduces proven edge devices and clouds used to construct microservices-centric and real-time edge applications. Finally, readers will benefit from: Thorough introductions to the demystification of digital transformation Comprehensive explorations of distributed computing in the digital era, as well as reflections on the history and technological development of cloud computing Practical discussions of cloud-native computing and microservices architecture, as well as event-driven architecture and serverless computing In-depth examinations of the Akka framework as a tool for concurrent and distributed applications development Perfect for graduate and postgraduate students in a variety of IT- and cloud-related specialties, Cloud-Native Computing also belongs in the libraries of IT professionals and business leaders engaged or interested in the application of cloud technologies to various business operations.
  blast radius software engineering: Chaos Engineering Mikolaj Pawlikowski, 2021-02-14 Chaos Engineering teaches you to design and execute controlled experiments that uncover hidden problems. Summary Auto engineers test the safety of a car by intentionally crashing it and carefully observing the results. Chaos engineering applies the same principles to software systems. In Chaos Engineering: Site reliability through controlled disruption, you’ll learn to run your applications and infrastructure through a series of tests that simulate real-life failures. You'll maximize the benefits of chaos engineering by learning to think like a chaos engineer, and how to design the proper experiments to ensure the reliability of your software. With examples that cover a whole spectrum of software, you'll be ready to run an intensive testing regime on anything from a simple WordPress site to a massive distributed system running on Kubernetes. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Can your network survive a devastating failure? Could an accident bring your day-to-day operations to a halt? Chaos engineering simulates infrastructure outages, component crashes, and other calamities to show how systems and staff respond. Testing systems in distress is the best way to ensure their future resilience, which is especially important for complex, large-scale applications with little room for downtime. About the book Chaos Engineering teaches you to design and execute controlled experiments that uncover hidden problems. Learn to inject system-shaking failures that disrupt system calls, networking, APIs, and Kubernetes-based microservices infrastructures. To help you practice, the book includes a downloadable Linux VM image with a suite of preconfigured tools so you can experiment quickly—without risk. What's inside Inject failure into processes, applications, and virtual machines Test software running on Kubernetes Work with both open source and legacy software Simulate database connection latency Test and improve your team’s failure response About the reader Assumes Linux servers. Basic scripting skills required. About the author Mikolaj Pawlikowski is a recognized authority on chaos engineering. He is the creator of the Kubernetes chaos engineering tool PowerfulSeal, and the networking visibility tool Goldpinger. Table of Contents 1 Into the world of chaos engineering PART 1 - CHAOS ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS 2 First cup of chaos and blast radius 3 Observability 4 Database trouble and testing in production PART 2 - CHAOS ENGINEERING IN ACTION 5 Poking Docker 6 Who you gonna call? Syscall-busters! 7 Injecting failure into the JVM 8 Application-level fault injection 9 There's a monkey in my browser! PART 3 - CHAOS ENGINEERING IN KUBERNETES 10 Chaos in Kubernetes 11 Automating Kubernetes experiments 12 Under the hood of Kubernetes 13 Chaos engineering (for) people
  blast radius software engineering: Chaos Engineering with Go Kapil Kumar Khandelwal, Mohit Garg, 2024-08-20 DESCRIPTION Chaos Engineering with Go is your essential guide to building resilient systems. In today's complex distributed environments, ensuring system reliability is paramount. By introducing controlled chaos into your systems, you can identify weaknesses and fortify them before they become critical failures. This book explores chaos engineering, offering a complete guide to building resilient systems. Starting with basic concepts and Go programming, it moves to chaos engineering topics like fault tolerance, fault injection, and chaos testing. Readers will learn to design and run chaos experiments using various tools and techniques. The book highlights the importance of monitoring and observability to understand system behavior. It includes practical case studies and best practices, ending with an in-depth look at security chaos engineering and emerging technologies. This book also emphasizes implementing observability practices within chaos engineering workflows, enhancing your ability to reduce downtime and improve system reliability. With a keen focus on best practices and lessons learned, this book equips readers with the knowledge and tools needed to embrace chaos, ensuring robust and reliable systems in an ever-evolving digital landscape. KEY FEATURES ● Master the core concepts and unique principles of chaos engineering. ● Resilience patterns for unstoppable microservices. ● Hands-on chaos experiments for real-world resilience. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Grasp fundamental concepts and principles of chaos engineering. ● Implement fault tolerance and resilience patterns using Go. ● Design and execute effective chaos experiments to test system resilience. ● Utilize cutting-edge tools for chaos testing and fault injection. ● Integrate observability practices into chaos engineering workflows. ● Apply security chaos engineering and learn from real-world case studies. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR The book caters to both beginners and experienced professionals interested in enhancing system integrity and reducing downtime. Ideal for site reliability engineers (SREs), DevOps engineers, enterprise architects, tech professionals, and college students. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Exploring the Essence of Chaos Engineering 2. Chaos Engineering Concepts 3. Revision with Go 4. Fault Tolerance and Resilience Patterns 5. Chaos Fault Injection Techniques 6. Chaos Testing Tools 7. Chaos Experiment Design 8. Chaos with Emerging Tech Stack 9. Essence of Observability in Distributed System 10. Observability in Chaos Engineering 11. Security Chaos Engineering Overview 12. Case Studies: Chaos Engineering in Action 13. Best Practices and Lessons Learned
  blast radius software engineering: Security as Code BK Sarthak Das, Virginia Chu, 2023-01-03 DevOps engineers, developers, and security engineers have ever-changing roles to play in today's cloud native world. In order to build secure and resilient applications, you have to be equipped with security knowledge. Enter security as code. In this book, authors BK Sarthak Das and Virginia Chu demonstrate how to use this methodology to secure any application and infrastructure you want to deploy. With Security as Code, you'll learn how to create a secure containerized application with Kubernetes using CI/CD tooling from AWS and open source providers. This practical book also provides common patterns and methods to securely develop infrastructure for resilient and highly available backups that you can restore with just minimal manual intervention. Learn the tools of the trade, using Kubernetes and the AWS Code Suite Set up infrastructure as code and run scans to detect misconfigured resources in your code Create secure logging patterns with CloudWatch and other tools Restrict system access to authorized users with role-based access control (RBAC) Inject faults to test the resiliency of your application with AWS Fault Injector or open source tooling Learn how to pull everything together into one deployment
  blast radius software engineering: Principles of Software Architecture Modernization Diego Pacheco, Sam Sgro, 2023-12-01 Long path to better systems that last longer and make engineers and customers happier KEY FEATURES ● Guidance, trade-offs analysis, principles, and insights on understanding complex microservices and monoliths problems and solutions at scale. ● In-depth coverage of anti-patterns, allowing the reader to avoid pitfalls and understand how to handle architecture at scale better. ● Concepts and lessons learned through experience in performing code and data migration at scale with complex architectures. Best usage of new technology using the right architecture principles. DESCRIPTION This book is a comprehensive guide to designing scalable and maintainable software written by an expert. It covers the principles, patterns, anti-patterns, trade-offs, and concepts that software developers and architects need to understand to design software that is both scalable and maintainable. The book begins by introducing the concept of monoliths and discussing the challenges associated with scaling and maintaining them. It then covers several anti-patterns that can lead to these challenges, such as lack of isolation and internal shared libraries. The next section of the book focuses on the principles of good software design, such as loose coupling and encapsulation. It also covers several software architecture patterns that can be used to design scalable and maintainable monoliths, such as the layered architecture pattern and the microservices pattern. The final section of the book guides how to migrate monoliths to distributed systems. It also covers how to test and deploy distributed systems effectively. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Understand the challenges of monoliths and the common anti-patterns that lead to them. ● Learn the principles of good software design, such as loose coupling and encapsulation. ● Discover software architecture patterns that can be used to design scalable and maintainable monoliths. ● Get guidance on how to migrate monoliths to distributed systems. ● Learn how to test and deploy distributed systems effectively. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for software developers, architects, system architects, DevOps engineers, site reliability engineers, and anyone who wants to learn about the principles and practices of modernizing software architectures. The book is especially relevant for those who are working with legacy systems or want to design new systems that are scalable, resilient, and maintainable. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. What’s Wrong with Monoliths? 2. Anti-Patterns: Lack of Isolation 3. Anti-Patterns: Distributed Monoliths 4. Anti-Patterns: Internal Shared Libraries 5. Assessments 6. Principles of Proper Services 7. Proper Service Testing 8. Embracing New Technology 9. Code Migrations 10. Data Migrations 11. Epilogue
  blast radius software engineering: DevOps For Dummies Emily Freeman, 2019-07-30 Develop faster with DevOps DevOps embraces a culture of unifying the creation and distribution of technology in a way that allows for faster release cycles and more resource-efficient product updating. DevOps For Dummies provides a guidebook for those on the development or operations side in need of a primer on this way of working. Inside, DevOps evangelist Emily Freeman provides a roadmap for adopting the management and technology tools, as well as the culture changes, needed to dive head-first into DevOps. Identify your organization’s needs Create a DevOps framework Change your organizational structure Manage projects in the DevOps world DevOps For Dummies is essential reading for developers and operations professionals in the early stages of DevOps adoption.
  blast radius software engineering: Chaos Engineering Casey Rosenthal, Nora Jones, 2020-04-06 As more companies move toward microservices and other distributed technologies, the complexity of these systems increases. You can't remove the complexity, but through Chaos Engineering you can discover vulnerabilities and prevent outages before they impact your customers. This practical guide shows engineers how to navigate complex systems while optimizing to meet business goals. Two of the field's prominent figures, Casey Rosenthal and Nora Jones, pioneered the discipline while working together at Netflix. In this book, they expound on the what, how, and why of Chaos Engineering while facilitating a conversation from practitioners across industries. Many chapters are written by contributing authors to widen the perspective across verticals within (and beyond) the software industry. Learn how Chaos Engineering enables your organization to navigate complexity Explore a methodology to avoid failures within your application, network, and infrastructure Move from theory to practice through real-world stories from industry experts at Google, Microsoft, Slack, and LinkedIn, among others Establish a framework for thinking about complexity within software systems Design a Chaos Engineering program around game days and move toward highly targeted, automated experiments Learn how to design continuous collaborative chaos experiments
  blast radius software engineering: Fundamentals of Data Engineering Joe Reis, Matt Housley, 2022-06-22 Data engineering has grown rapidly in the past decade, leaving many software engineers, data scientists, and analysts looking for a comprehensive view of this practice. With this practical book, you'll learn how to plan and build systems to serve the needs of your organization and customers by evaluating the best technologies available through the framework of the data engineering lifecycle. Authors Joe Reis and Matt Housley walk you through the data engineering lifecycle and show you how to stitch together a variety of cloud technologies to serve the needs of downstream data consumers. You'll understand how to apply the concepts of data generation, ingestion, orchestration, transformation, storage, and governance that are critical in any data environment regardless of the underlying technology. This book will help you: Get a concise overview of the entire data engineering landscape Assess data engineering problems using an end-to-end framework of best practices Cut through marketing hype when choosing data technologies, architecture, and processes Use the data engineering lifecycle to design and build a robust architecture Incorporate data governance and security across the data engineering lifecycle
  blast radius software engineering: Fundamentals of Enterprise Architecture Tanu McCabe, 2024-09-05 With the increasing complexity of modern cloud-based systems, an effective enterprise architecture program is more critical than ever. In this practical book, author Tanu McCabe from Capital One provides proven frameworks and practices to define an effective enterprise architecture strategy—one that will enable software and enterprise architects to create and implement great architecture strategies. You'll learn how to create shared alignment across business and technology, embed architecture practices into processes and tooling, incorporate technology and business trends, and instill contextual understanding over siloed decision-making. Complete with examples of patterns and antipatterns, this book provides reusable templates, assessment tools, and practical advice. With this book, you will: Understand exactly what enterprise architecture is, and why it's important to build an effective enterprise architecture practice Learn who needs to be involved to define and implement architecture strategies Examine common pitfalls that inhibit effective architecture strategies Assess the current state of your organization's architecture practice to identify opportunities for improvement Define your own architecture strategy at both an organizational and personal level by applying the book's frameworks Enhance your ability to make great architecture decisions using the frameworks and lessons provided Tanusree (Tanu) McCabe is a distinguished engineer who leads public cloud strategy at CVS and formerly led enterprise architecture strategy at Capital One as an executive distinguished engineer.
  blast radius software engineering: Cloud Reliability Engineering Rathnakar Achary, Pethuru Raj, 2021-04-12 Coud reliability engineering is a leading issue of cloud services. Cloud service providers guarantee computation, storage and applications through service-level agreements (SLAs) for promised levels of performance and uptime. Cloud Reliability Engineering: Technologies and Tools presents case studies examining cloud services, their challenges, and the reliability mechanisms used by cloud service providers. These case studies provide readers with techniques to harness cloud reliability and availability requirements in their own endeavors. Both conceptual and applied, the book explains reliability theory and the best practices used by cloud service companies to provide high availability. It also examines load balancing, and cloud security. Written by researchers and practitioners, the book’s chapters are a comprehensive study of cloud reliability and availability issues and solutions. Various reliability class distributions and their effects on cloud reliability are discussed. An important aspect of reliability block diagrams is used to categorize poor reliability of cloud infrastructures, where enhancement can be made to lower the failure rate of the system. This technique can be used in design and functional stages to determine poor reliability of a system and provide target improvements. Load balancing for reliability is examined as a migrating process or performed by using virtual machines. The approach employed to identify the lightly loaded destination node to which the processes/virtual machines migrate can be optimized by employing a genetic algorithm. To analyze security risk and reliability, a novel technique for minimizing the number of keys and the security system is presented. The book also provides an overview of testing methods for the cloud, and a case study discusses testing reliability, installability, and security. A comprehensive volume, Cloud Reliability Engineering: Technologies and Tools combines research, theory, and best practices used to engineer reliable cloud availability and performance.
  blast radius software engineering: Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices John Gilbert, 2018-02-09 Learn to apply cloud-native patterns and practices to deliver responsive, resilient, elastic, and message-driven systems with confidence Key Features Understand the architectural patterns involved in cloud-native architectures Minimize risk by evolving your monolithic applications into distributed cloud-native systems Discover best practices for applying cloud-native patterns to your enterprise-level cloud applications Book Description Build systems that leverage the benefits of the cloud and applications faster than ever before with cloud-native development. This book focuses on architectural patterns for building highly scalable cloud-native systems. You will learn how the combination of cloud, reactive principles, devops, and automation enable teams to continuously deliver innovation with confidence. Begin by learning the core concepts that make these systems unique. You will explore foundational patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability with cloud-native databases. You will also learn how to continuously deliver production code with confidence by shifting deployment and testing all the way to the left and implementing continuous observability in production. There's more—you will also learn how to strangle your monolith and design an evolving cloud-native system. By the end of the book, you will have the ability to create modern cloud-native systems. What you will learn Enable massive scaling by turning your database inside out Unleash flexibility via event streaming Leverage polyglot persistence and cloud-native databases Embrace modern continuous delivery and testing techniques Minimize risk by evolving your monoliths to cloud-native Apply cloud-native patterns and solve major architectural problems in cloud environment Who this book is for This book is for developers who would like to progress into building cloud-native systems and are keen to learn the patterns involved. Basic knowledge of programming and cloud computing is required.
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  blast radius software engineering: Cisco pyATS — Network Test and Automation Solution John Capobianco, Dan Wade, 2024-07-23 Unlock the power of automated network testing with the Cisco pyATS framework. Written by industry experts John Capobianco and Dan Wade, Cisco pyATS—Network Test and Automation Solution is a comprehensive guide to theCisco pyATS framework, a Python-based environment for network testing, device configuration, parsing, APIs, and parallel programming. Capobianco and Wade offer in-depth insights into the extensive capabilities of pyATS and the pyATS library (Genie). You’ll learn how to leverage pyATS for network testing, including software version testing, interface testing, neighbor testing, and reachability testing. You’ll discover how to generate intent-based configurations, create mock devices, and integrate pyATS into larger workflows using CI/CD pipelines and artificial intelligence. You’ll explore the pyATS Blitz feature, which introduces a low-code no-code approach to network testing by allowing you to configure devices and write test cases using YAML, much like Ansible. And you’ll learn how to reset devices during or after testing with the pyATS Clean feature, build a pyATS image from scratch for containerized application deployment, and much more. Whether you’re a network professional, software developer, or preparing for the Cisco DevNet Expert Lab exam, this book is a must-have resource. Understand the foundations of NetDevOps and the modern network engineer’s toolkit Install, upgrade, and work with the pyATS framework and library Define test cases, control the flow of test execution, and review test results with built-in reporting features Generate automated network documentation with Jinja2 templates and Genie Conf objects Apply CI/CD practices in network automation with GitLab, Ansible, and pyATS Leverage artificial intelligence in pyATS for enhanced network automation
  blast radius software engineering: Guidebook für Software Engineers Gergely Orosz, 2024-11-26 Software-Engineers sollten ihre berufliche Entwicklung unbedingt selbst in die Hand nehmen †eine Erkenntnis, die Gergely Orosz schon zu Beginn seiner Karriere gewonnen hat. In diesem Buch unterstützt er Software-Engineers bei ihrer Karriereplanung und teilt seine Erfahrungen und tiefgehenden Branchenkenntnisse. Das Guidebook orientiert sich dabei am »typischen« Karriereweg eines Software-Engineers: vom Junior-Entwickler über die Rolle des Senior-Engineers mit Vorbildfunktion bis hin zu Führungspositionen wie Staff-Engineer oder Principal-Engineer. Gergely Orosz beschreibt, welche Schlüsselkompetenzen unverzichtbar sind, und gibt zahlreiche Impulse und Anregungen. Das Buch erläutert u.a.:- Grundlagen der EntwicklerkarriereTypische Karrierepfade, die eigene Karriere steuern, Leistungsbeurteilungen, Beförderungen, Jobwechsel- Der kompetente SoftwareentwicklerDinge anpacken, die eigenen Programmierfähigkeiten vertiefen und hochwertigen Code schreiben, die Werkzeuge produktiver Entwickler- Der vielseitige Senior-EngineerAufgaben erfolgreich abschließen, durch Code-Reviews und Mentoring besser zusammenarbeiten, technische Schulden abbauen, eine hohe Testabdeckung sicherstellen, tragfähige Architekturentscheidungen treffen- Der pragmatische Tech-LeadZiele, Phasen und Risiken beim Managen von Projekten, Software für den Produktivbetrieb bereitstellen, Stakeholder-Management betreiben, Fokus und Dynamik eines Teams verbessern- Staff- und Principal-Engineers mit VorbildfunktionDurch KPIs und OKRs das Geschäft verstehen, hilfreiche Engineering-Prozesse etablieren, geschäftliche Ziele durch zukunftsfähige IT-Lösungen unterstützen
  blast radius software engineering: Scaling Institutions with DevOps Flavien BERWICK, 2024-01-26 Numerous organizations have embarked on their journey towards digital transformation, yet find themselves grappling to develop a coherent and effective strategy. In their quest for improvement, they often turn to a plethora of experts, harboring hopes of achieving success. Confronted with the imperative necessity to evolve and sustain their operational momentum, a pervasive sense of fatalism begins to take hold. In this situation, the DevOps movement emerges as a beacon of hope. Rooted in the principles that govern the world's most successful and expansive organizations, DevOps seeks to provide viable solutions to these pressing challenges. This book is designed to be your gateway to understanding this transformative movement, which has found its stronghold in the largest and most prosperous organizations of the world. Designed to be both accessible and insightful, this hands-on guide, enriched with illustrations, unfolds the opportunities that state-of-the-art DevOps technologies and methodologies have to offer. It demystifies the prerequisites for organizational adaptation and guides you on embarking on your own DevOps transformation, at any scale.
  blast radius software engineering: Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices Rosemary Wang, 2022-09-20 Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate, test, and streamline infrastructure for business-critical systems. In Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices you will learn how to: Optimize infrastructure for modularity and isolate dependencies Test infrastructure configuration Mitigate, troubleshoot, and isolate failed infrastructure changes Collaborate across teams on infrastructure development Update infrastructure with minimal downtime using blue-green deployments Scale infrastructure systems supporting multiple business units Use patterns for provisioning tools, configuration management, and image building Deliver secure infrastructure configuration to production Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices teaches you to automate infrastructure by applying changes in a codified manner. You’ll learn how to create, test, and deploy infrastructure components in a way that’s easy to scale and share across an entire organization. The book is full of flexible automation techniques that work whether you’re managing your personal projects or making live network changes across a large enterprise. A system administrator or infrastructure engineer will learn essential software development practices for managing IaC, while developers will benefit from in-depth coverage of assembling infrastructure as part of DevOps culture. While the patterns and techniques are tool agnostic, you’ll appreciate the easy-to-follow examples in Python and Terraform. About the technology Infrastructure as Code is a set of practices and processes for provisioning and maintaining infrastructure using scripts, configuration, or programming languages. With IaC in place, it’s easy to test components, implement features, and scale with minimal downtime. Best of all, since IaC follows good development practices, you can make system-wide changes with just a few code commits! About the book Infrastructure as Code, Patterns and Practices teaches flexible techniques for building resilient, scalable infrastructure, including structuring and sharing modules, migrating legacy systems, and more. Learn to build networks, load balancers, and firewalls using Python and Terraform, and confidently update infrastructure while your software is running. You’ll appreciate the expert advice on team collaboration strategies to avoid instability, improve security, and manage costs. What's inside Optimize infrastructure for modularity and isolate dependencies Mitigate, troubleshoot, and isolate failed infrastructure changes Update infrastructure with minimal downtime using blue-green deployments Use patterns for provisioning tools, configuration management, and image building About the reader For infrastructure or software engineers familiar with Python, provisioning tools, and public cloud providers. About the author Rosemary Wang is an educator, contributor, writer, and speaker. She has worked on many infrastructure as code projects, and open source tools such as Terraform, Vault, and Kubernetes. Table of Contents PART 1 FIRST STEPS 1 Introducing infrastructure as code 2 Writing infrastructure as code 3 Patterns for infrastructure modules 4 Patterns for infrastructure dependencies PART 2 SCALING WITH YOUR TEAM 5 Structuring and sharing modules 6 Testing 7 Continuous delivery and branching models 8 Security and compliance PART 3 MANAGING PRODUCTION COMPLEXITY 9 Making changes 10 Refactoring 11 Fixing failures 12 Cost of cloud computing 13 Managing tools
  blast radius software engineering: Identity-Native Infrastructure Access Management Ev Kontsevoy, Sakshyam Shah, Peter Conrad, 2023-09-13 Traditional secret-based credentials can't scale to meet the complexity and size of cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Today's applications are spread across a diverse range of clouds and colocation facilities, as well as on-prem data centers. Each layer of this modern stack has its own attack vectors and protocols to consider. How can you secure access to diverse infrastructure components, from bare metal to ephemeral containers, consistently and simply? In this practical book, authors Ev Kontsevoy, Sakshyam Shah, and Peter Conrad break this topic down into manageable pieces. You'll discover how different parts of the approach fit together in a way that enables engineering teams to build more secure applications without slowing down productivity. With this book, you'll learn: The four pillars of access: connectivity, authentication, authorization, and audit Why every attack follows the same pattern, and how to make this threat impossible How to implement identity-based access across your entire infrastructure with digital certificates Why it's time for secret-based credentials to go away How to securely connect to remote resources including servers, databases, K8s Pods, and internal applications such as Jenkins and GitLab Authentication and authorization methods for gaining access to and permission for using protected resources
  blast radius software engineering: Becoming an Agile Software Architect Rajesh R V, 2021-03-19 A guide to successfully operating in a lean-agile organization for solutions architects and enterprise architects Key FeaturesDevelop the right combination of processes and technical excellence to address architectural challengesExplore a range of architectural techniques to modernize legacy systemsDiscover how to design and continuously improve well-architected sustainable softwareBook Description Many organizations have embraced Agile methodologies to transform their ability to rapidly respond to constantly changing customer demands. However, in this melee, many enterprises often neglect to invest in architects by presuming architecture is not an intrinsic element of Agile software development. Since the role of an architect is not pre-defined in Agile, many organizations struggle to position architects, often resulting in friction with other roles or a failure to provide a clear learning path for architects to be productive. This book guides architects and organizations through new Agile ways of incrementally developing the architecture for delivering an uninterrupted, continuous flow of values that meets customer needs. You'll explore various aspects of Agile architecture and how it differs from traditional architecture. The book later covers Agile architects' responsibilities and how architects can add significant value by positioning themselves appropriately in the Agile flow of work. Through examples, you'll also learn concepts such as architectural decision backlog,the last responsible moment, value delivery, architecting for change, DevOps, and evolutionary collaboration. By the end of this Agile book, you'll be able to operate as an architect in Agile development initiatives and successfully architect reliable software systems. What you will learnAcquire clarity on the duties of architects in Agile developmentUnderstand architectural styles such as domain-driven design and microservicesIdentify the pitfalls of traditional architecture and learn how to develop solutionsUnderstand the principles of value and data-driven architectureDiscover DevOps and continuous delivery from an architect's perspectiveAdopt Lean-Agile documentation and governanceDevelop a set of personal and interpersonal qualitiesFind out how to lead the transformation to achieve organization-wide agilityWho this book is for This agile study guide is for architects currently working on agile development projects or aspiring to work on agile software delivery, irrespective of the methodology they are using. You will also find this book useful if you're a senior developer or a budding architect looking to understand an agile architect's role by embracing agile architecture strategies and a lean-agile mindset. To understand the concepts covered in this book easily, you need to have prior knowledge of basic agile development practices.
  blast radius software engineering: Leading software teams with context, not control Dion Beetson, 2020-06-16 As a software engineering leader, the scope of your role is extensive. You have many competing responsibilities and priorities that need to be balanced to ensure you and your team are as effective as possible. These can include providing architectural direction, driving peer to peer collaboration, ensuring cross-team alignment, motivating teams with purpose, supporting team members' career progression, or perhaps helping remove blockers and impediments. All of these efforts work to create a specific culture within a software team that aims to improve effectiveness, engagement, and retention. This book is for software engineering leaders who are responsible for leading teams. It also dives into the unique complexity and challenges that comes with leading, aligning and supporting multiple software teams. This book aspires to provide you with helpful and reusable approaches that can be leveraged to bring about a greater level of efficiency into your role as a leader. There are many books written around leading teams or leading people, this book takes a lens of what specific practices and initiatives you should be investing your time into when leading software engineering teams. The book has been inspired by the many people I have worked with, learnings from practices I have implemented, as well as books and blogs I have read over the years. I see this is a book that leads itself to many iterations and should evolve as I discover new practices and techniques that help me improve the way I lead software teams. Regardless of the size of your software team, if you find yourself needing to better balance both the technical and people aspects of leading teams, or guidance on initiatives you could be running to improve team alignment, effectiveness and engagement then this book is written for you.
  blast radius software engineering: Application Security Program Handbook Derek Fisher, 2023-02-28 Stop dangerous threats and secure your vulnerabilities without slowing down delivery. This practical book is a one-stop guide to implementing a robust application security program. In the Application Security Program Handbook you will learn: Why application security is so important to modern software Application security tools you can use throughout the development lifecycle Creating threat models Rating discovered risks Gap analysis on security tools Mitigating web application vulnerabilities Creating a DevSecOps pipeline Application security as a service model Reporting structures that highlight the value of application security Creating a software security ecosystem that benefits development Setting up your program for continuous improvement The Application Security Program Handbook teaches you to implement a robust program of security throughout your development process. It goes well beyond the basics, detailing flexible security fundamentals that can adapt and evolve to new and emerging threats. Its service-oriented approach is perfectly suited to the fast pace of modern development. Your team will quickly switch from viewing security as a chore to an essential part of their daily work. Follow the expert advice in this guide and you’ll reliably deliver software that is free from security defects and critical vulnerabilities. About the technology Application security is much more than a protective layer bolted onto your code. Real security requires coordinating practices, people, tools, technology, and processes throughout the life cycle of a software product. This book provides a reproducible, step-by-step road map to building a successful application security program. About the book The Application Security Program Handbook delivers effective guidance on establishing and maturing a comprehensive software security plan. In it, you’ll master techniques for assessing your current application security, determining whether vendor tools are delivering what you need, and modeling risks and threats. As you go, you’ll learn both how to secure a software application end to end and also how to build a rock-solid process to keep it safe. What's inside Application security tools for the whole development life cycle Finding and fixing web application vulnerabilities Creating a DevSecOps pipeline Setting up your security program for continuous improvement About the reader For software developers, architects, team leaders, and project managers. About the author Derek Fisher has been working in application security for over a decade, where he has seen numerous security successes and failures firsthand. Table of Contents PART 1 DEFINING APPLICATION SECURITY 1 Why do we need application security? 2 Defining the problem 3 Components of application security PART 2 DEVELOPING THE APPLICATION SECURITY PROGRAM 4 Releasing secure code 5 Security belongs to everyone 6 Application security as a service PART 3 DELIVER AND MEASURE 7 Building a roadmap 8 Measuring success 9 Continuously improving the program
  blast radius software engineering: Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering Shamayel M. Farooqui, Vishnu Vardhan Chikoti, 2021-07-06 A comprehensive guide with basic to advanced SRE practices and hands-on examples. KEY FEATURES ● Demonstrates how to execute site reliability engineering along with fundamental concepts. ● Illustrates real-world examples and successful techniques to put SRE into production. ● Introduces you to DevOps, advanced techniques of SRE, and popular tools in use. DESCRIPTION Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) brings you a tailor-made guide to learn and practice the essential activities for the smooth functioning of enterprise systems, right from designing to the deployment of enterprise software programs and extending to scalable use with complete efficiency and reliability. The book explores the fundamentals around SRE and related terms, concepts, and techniques that are used by SRE teams and experts. It discusses the essential elements of an IT system, including microservices, application architectures, types of software deployment, and concepts like load balancing. It explains the best techniques in delivering timely software releases using containerization and CI/CD pipeline. This book covers how to track and monitor application performance using Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana along with how to extend monitoring more effectively by building full-stack observability into the system. The book also talks about chaos engineering, types of system failures, design for high-availability, DevSecOps and AIOps. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn the best techniques and practices for building and running reliable software. ● Explore observability and popular methods for effective monitoring of applications. ● Workaround SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and Error Budget Policies to manage failures. ● Learn to practice continuous software delivery using blue/green and canary deployments. ● Explore chaos engineering, SRE best practices, DevSecOps and AIOps. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book caters to experienced IT professionals, application developers, software engineers, and all those who are looking to develop SRE capabilities at the individual or team level. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Understand the World of IT 2. Introduction to DevOps 3. Introduction to SRE 4. Identify and Eliminate Toil 5. Release Engineering 6. Incident Management 7. IT Monitoring 8. Observability 9. Key SRE KPIs: SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets 10. Chaos Engineering 11. DevSecOps and AIOps 12. Culture of Site Reliability Engineering
  blast radius software engineering: Building Secure and Reliable Systems Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, Adam Stubblefield, 2020-03-16 Can a system be considered truly reliable if it isn't fundamentally secure? Or can it be considered secure if it's unreliable? Security is crucial to the design and operation of scalable systems in production, as it plays an important part in product quality, performance, and availability. In this book, experts from Google share best practices to help your organization design scalable and reliable systems that are fundamentally secure. Two previous O’Reilly books from Google—Site Reliability Engineering and The Site Reliability Workbook—demonstrated how and why a commitment to the entire service lifecycle enables organizations to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain software systems. In this latest guide, the authors offer insights into system design, implementation, and maintenance from practitioners who specialize in security and reliability. They also discuss how building and adopting their recommended best practices requires a culture that’s supportive of such change. You’ll learn about secure and reliable systems through: Design strategies Recommendations for coding, testing, and debugging practices Strategies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents Cultural best practices that help teams across your organization collaborate effectively
  blast radius software engineering: Data Governance: The Definitive Guide Evren Eryurek, Uri Gilad, Valliappa Lakshmanan, Anita Kibunguchy-Grant, Jessi Ashdown, 2021-03-08 As your company moves data to the cloud, you need to consider a comprehensive approach to data governance, along with well-defined and agreed-upon policies to ensure you meet compliance. Data governance incorporates the ways that people, processes, and technology work together to support business efficiency. With this practical guide, chief information, data, and security officers will learn how to effectively implement and scale data governance throughout their organizations. You'll explore how to create a strategy and tooling to support the democratization of data and governance principles. Through good data governance, you can inspire customer trust, enable your organization to extract more value from data, and generate more-competitive offerings and improvements in customer experience. This book shows you how. Enable auditable legal and regulatory compliance with defined and agreed-upon data policies Employ better risk management Establish control and maintain visibility into your company's data assets, providing a competitive advantage Drive top-line revenue and cost savings when developing new products and services Implement your organization's people, processes, and tools to operationalize data trustworthiness.
  blast radius software engineering: Async Rust Maxwell Flitton, Caroline Morton, 2024-11-12 Already popular among programmers for its memory safety and speed, the Rust programming language is also valuable for asynchrony. This practical book shows you how asynchronous Rust can help you solve problems that require multitasking. You'll learn how to apply async programming to solve problems with an async approach. You will also dive deeper into async runtimes, implementing your own ways in which async runtimes handle incoming tasks. Authors Maxwell Flitton and Caroline Morton also show you how to implement the Tokio software library to help you with incoming traffic, communicate between threads with shared memory and channels, and design a range of complex solutions using actors. You'll also learn to perform unit and end-to-end tests on a Rust async system. With this book, you'll learn: How Rust approaches async programming How coroutines relate to async Rust Reactive programming and how to implement pub sub in async rust How to solve problems using actors How to customize Tokio to gain control over how tasks are processed Async Rust design patterns How to build an async TCP server just using the standard library How to unit test async Rust By the end of the book, you'll be able to implement your own async TCP server completely from the standard library with zero external dependencies, and unit test your async code.
  blast radius software engineering: Python Cookbook Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, David Ascher, 2005-03-18 Portable, powerful, and a breeze to use, Python is the popular open source object-oriented programming language used for both standalone programs and scripting applications. It is now being used by an increasing number of major organizations, including NASA and Google.Updated for Python 2.4, The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition offers a wealth of useful code for all Python programmers, not just advanced practitioners. Like its predecessor, the new edition provides solutions to problems that Python programmers face everyday.It now includes over 200 recipes that range from simple tasks, such as working with dictionaries and list comprehensions, to complex tasks, such as monitoring a network and building a templating system. This revised version also includes new chapters on topics such as time, money, and metaprogramming.Here's a list of additional topics covered: Manipulating text Searching and sorting Working with files and the filesystem Object-oriented programming Dealing with threads and processes System administration Interacting with databases Creating user interfaces Network and web programming Processing XML Distributed programming Debugging and testing Another advantage of The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition is its trio of authors--three well-known Python programming experts, who are highly visible on email lists and in newsgroups, and speak often at Python conferences.With scores of practical examples and pertinent background information, The Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition is the one source you need if you're looking to build efficient, flexible, scalable, and well-integrated systems.
  blast radius software engineering: 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know Emily Freeman, Nathen Harvey, 2020-12-04 If you create, manage, operate, or configure systems running in the cloud, you're a cloud engineer--even if you work as a system administrator, software developer, data scientist, or site reliability engineer. With this book, professionals from around the world provide valuable insight into today's cloud engineering role. These concise articles explore the entire cloud computing experience, including fundamentals, architecture, and migration. You'll delve into security and compliance, operations and reliability, and software development. And examine networking, organizational culture, and more. You're sure to find 1, 2, or 97 things that inspire you to dig deeper and expand your own career. Three Keys to Making the Right Multicloud Decisions, Brendan O'Leary Serverless Bad Practices, Manases Jesus Galindo Bello Failing a Cloud Migration, Lee Atchison Treat Your Cloud Environment as If It Were On Premises, Iyana Garry What Is Toil, and Why Are SREs Obsessed with It?, Zachary Nickens Lean QA: The QA Evolving in the DevOps World, Theresa Neate How Economies of Scale Work in the Cloud, Jon Moore The Cloud Is Not About the Cloud, Ken Corless Data Gravity: The Importance of Data Management in the Cloud, Geoff Hughes Even in the Cloud, the Network Is the Foundation, David Murray Cloud Engineering Is About Culture, Not Containers, Holly Cummins
  blast radius software engineering: 97 Things Every SRE Should Know Emil Stolarsky, Jaime Woo, 2020-11-16 Site reliability engineering (SRE) is more relevant than ever. Knowing how to keep systems reliable has become a critical skill. With this practical book, newcomers and old hats alike will explore a broad range of conversations happening in SRE. You'll get actionable advice on several topics, including how to adopt SRE, why SLOs matter, when you need to upgrade your incident response, and how monitoring and observability differ. Editors Jaime Woo and Emil Stolarsky, co-founders of Incident Labs, have collected 97 concise and useful tips from across the industry, including trusted best practices and new approaches to knotty problems. You'll grow and refine your SRE skills through sound advice and thought-provokingquestions that drive the direction of the field. Some of the 97 things you should know: Test Your Disaster Plan--Tanya Reilly Integrating Empathy into SRE Tools--Daniella Niyonkuru The Best Advice I Can Give to Teams--Nicole Forsgren Where to SRE--Fatema Boxwala Facing That First Page--Andrew Louis I Have an Error Budget, Now What?--Alex Hidalgo Get Your Work Recognized: Write a Brag Document--Julia Evans and Karla Burnett
  blast radius software engineering: Cyber Resilience System Engineering Empowered by Endogenous Security and Safety Jiangxing Wu,
  blast radius software engineering: Cyber Security: Law and Guidance Helen Wong MBE, 2018-09-28 Implementing appropriate security measures will be an advantage when protecting organisations from regulatory action and litigation in cyber security law: can you provide a defensive shield? Cyber Security: Law and Guidance provides an overview of legal developments in cyber security and data protection in the European Union and the United Kingdom, focusing on the key cyber security laws and related legal instruments, including those for data protection and payment services. Additional context is provided through insight into how the law is developed outside the regulatory frameworks, referencing the 'Consensus of Professional Opinion' on cyber security, case law and the role of professional and industry standards for security. With cyber security law destined to become heavily contentious, upholding a robust security framework will become an advantage and organisations will require expert assistance to operationalise matters. Practical in approach, this comprehensive text will be invaluable for legal practitioners and organisations. It covers both the law and its practical application, helping to ensure that advisers and organisations have effective policies and procedures in place to deal with cyber security. Topics include: - Threats and vulnerabilities - Privacy and security in the workplace and built environment - Importance of policy and guidance in digital communications - Industry specialists' in-depth reports - Social media and cyber security - International law and interaction between states - Data security and classification - Protecting organisations - Cyber security: cause and cure Cyber Security: Law and Guidance is on the indicative reading list of the University of Kent's Cyber Law module.
  blast radius software engineering: Ansible: Up and Running Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, René Moser, 2022-07-12 Among the many configuration management tools available, Ansible has some distinct advantages: It's minimal in nature. You don't need to install agents on your nodes. And there's an easy learning curve. With this updated third edition, you'll quickly learn how to be productive with Ansible whether you're a developer deploying code or a system administrator looking for a better automation solution. Authors Bas Meijer, Lorin Hochstein, and Rene Moser show you how to write playbooks (Ansible's configuration management scripts), manage remote servers, and explore the tool's real power: built-in declarative modules. You'll learn how Ansible has all the functionality you need--and the simplicity you desire. Explore Ansible configuration management and deployment Manage Linux, Windows, and network devices Learn how to apply Ansible best practices Understand how to use the new collections format Create custom modules and plug-ins Generate reusable Ansible content for open source middleware Build container images, images for cloud instances, and cloud infrastructure Automate CI/CD development environments Learn how to use Ansible Automation Platform for DevOps
  blast radius software engineering: Agile Application Security Laura Bell, Michael Brunton-Spall, Rich Smith, Jim Bird, 2017-09-08 Agile continues to be the most adopted software development methodology among organizations worldwide, but it generally hasn't integrated well with traditional security management techniques. And most security professionals aren’t up to speed in their understanding and experience of agile development. To help bridge the divide between these two worlds, this practical guide introduces several security tools and techniques adapted specifically to integrate with agile development. Written by security experts and agile veterans, this book begins by introducing security principles to agile practitioners, and agile principles to security practitioners. The authors also reveal problems they encountered in their own experiences with agile security, and how they worked to solve them. You’ll learn how to: Add security practices to each stage of your existing development lifecycle Integrate security with planning, requirements, design, and at the code level Include security testing as part of your team’s effort to deliver working software in each release Implement regulatory compliance in an agile or DevOps environment Build an effective security program through a culture of empathy, openness, transparency, and collaboration
  blast radius software engineering: Microservices: Novice To Ninja Rob Botwright, 101-01-01 📘 MICROSERVICES: NOVICE TO NINJA 🚀 Are you ready to level up your microservices game? Dive into the ultimate guide with our comprehensive book bundle, Microservices: Novice to Ninja. 🎓 📚 BOOK 1 - MICROSERVICES 101: 🌟 Embark on your journey into the world of distributed systems with our beginner's guide. Learn the fundamentals of microservices architecture, from decoupling to scalability. Perfect for those new to the concept! 🌱 📚 BOOK 2 - ARCHITECTING MICROSERVICES: 🏗️ Take your skills to the next level with strategies for designing scalable and resilient systems. Discover essential design patterns and principles like bounded contexts and aggregates. Build systems that can adapt and evolve effortlessly! 💪 📚 BOOK 3 - MASTERING MICROSERVICES: 🚀 Ready for the big leagues? Learn advanced techniques for optimizing performance and security. Dive into performance tuning, security best practices, and more. Become a master of microservices optimization! 🛠️ 📚 BOOK 4 - MICROSERVICES MASTERY: 🧠 Unlock expert insights into deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. Automate deployment pipelines, monitor system health, and troubleshoot issues like a pro. Ensure your microservices are always running smoothly! 🔍 With Microservices: Novice to Ninja, you'll have everything you need to build, design, and deploy distributed services like a true expert. Don't miss out on this essential book bundle for mastering microservices architecture! 🚀📘💡
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Here is a Web based application by the Army Software Factory, the blast radius is a Tactical Explosives Safety Risk Management tool designed to assist Army Ammunition Specialists with …

Decentralized cloud wide-area network trafic engineering …
isolated fault domains to contain the blast radius of faults. In this work, we present BLASTSHIELD, Microsoft’s SDN-based decentralized WAN traffic engineering system.BLAST …

Blast Radius Reduction - usenix.org
Blast radius reduction with self-healing and fast recovery •Temporal blast radius •For example: incident duration 1 hour vs 1 minutes •Mean time to Recovery (MTTR) is not useful in practice …

Minimizing Blast Radius of Chaos Engineering Experiments …
Various strategies are currently implemented to limit the blast radius of a Chaos Engineering (CE) experiment. One such strategy is the use of Canary deployments which involves deploying the …

Metro Ethernet Business Services Juniper Validated Design …
Jun 5, 2025 · Multi-instance ISIS enables the partitioning of the network domain into independent IGP instances to improve scale and contain blast radius.

The Blast-RADIUS Attack - Internet Engineering Task Force
Blast-RADIUS: Turning Access-Reject Into Access-Accept •Our attack allows a MITM attacker to produce a valid Response Authenticator without knowing the Shared Secret.

Blast-RADIUS - Breaking Enterprise Network Authentication
RADIUS: standard protocol for enterprise network authentication. RADIUS is [...] supported by essentially every switch, router, access point, and VPN concentrator product sold in the past …

O WAn is better than two: Unifying a split WAN architecture
(WANs) — a software-defined WAN to carry inter-datacenter traffic and a standards-based WAN for Internet traffic. Our experience with operating two heterogeneous planet-scale WANs has …

Zero Trust Security: Reduce the Blast Radius with …
Understanding and Controlling the Blast Radius Microsegmentation, a key tenet of Zero Trust security, effectively reduces the blast radius of a breach by confining attackers to a limited …

Chaos Engineering for Building Resilient Distributed Systems …
the blast radius is defined by identifying and encapsulating the parts or services that would be introduced to the taxing fault, in this way controlling the amount of harm that could occur. By …

Chaos Engineering for Enhanced Resilience of Cyber …
In this paper, we apply the principles of chaos engineer-ing (CE) to industrial CPS, in order to demonstrate the benefits of such practices on system resilience.

Decentralized cloud wide-area network trafic engineering …
with isolated fault domains to contain the blast radius of faults. In this work, we present BLASTSHIELD, Microsoft’s software-defined decentralized WAN traffic engineering sys-tem. …

Reduce Your Blast Radius with Segmentation - cstor.com
Reduce Your Blast Radius with Segmentation. SECURING AND CONTROLLING YOUR NETWORK. Joel Stine. Network and Firewall Architect. cStor. Andrew Roberts. Chief …

Blast Radius Software Engineering - old.icapgen.org
In Modern Software Engineering continuous delivery pioneer David Farley helps software professionals think about their work more effectively manage it more successfully and …

USE CASE Blast Radius Identification and Isolation
See for yourself how the blast radius feature in the Forward Enterprise platform can help security operations professionals immediately identify compromised hosts and other potentially …

Blast Radius Software Engineering (PDF) - old.icapgen.org
whether software engineering management is the right move for your career guides you through preparing for the position and gives you all the tools you need to thrive in the role Thought …

Designing for failure: Architecting
• Monolithic service (large blast radius) • Single region (performance and availability issues) • Direct DB access instead of service APIs • Unnecessary contention on writes • Data corruption …

Reducing blast radius with cell-based
• Reduced blast radius • Easier to test • Cells easier to operate Larger cells • Cost efficiency • Reduced splits • System easier to operate

Blast Radius Software Engineering
the structure of a “typical” career path for a software engineer, from starting out as a fresh-faced software developer, through being a role model senior/lead, all the way to the …

Blast Radius Software Engineering (PDF) - old.icapgen.org
Akanksha Gupta helps you explore whether software engineering management is the right move for your career guides you through preparing for the position and gives you all the tools you …

3 October 2022 - DAU
Here is a Web based application by the Army Software Factory, the blast radius is a Tactical Explosives Safety Risk Management tool designed to assist Army Ammunition Specialists with …