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Engineering leaders work hard to protect their teams from burnout — improving processes, hiring strong talent, and adjusting on-call rotations. But if your team still looks exhausted, the real issue may not be the rotation at all. It’s often the underlying database and infrastructure quietly triggering the same incidents over and over.
Released in July 2025, NIST SP 800-63 Revision 4 introduced new requirements for authentication strength, identity proofing, and federation security. Many organizations still haven't assessed their systems against these updated standards. Learn what changed, why it matters for compliance, and how to evaluate your current identity controls against the new framework.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL can be a powerful starting point for teams adopting PostgreSQL in AWS. But as usage grows, so do the needs for cost transparency, fine-grained tuning, and architectural flexibility. Here's why more teams are choosing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL or EC2 as they scale.
The July 31st advisory from CISA and the U.S. Coast Guard (AA25-212A) is less about what happened and more about what could have. A proactive threat hunt at a U.S. critical infrastructure organization revealed no active compromise, but it uncovered systemic weaknesses like insecure credentials, unrestricted remote access, and insufficient monitoring. This is a textbook case of “security theater”: policies and tools on paper, without enforcement in practice. The takeaway …
How much of our time is spent on autopilot?
Most people can agree that our internal autopilot systems enable us to be efficient and effective. It allows us to do things like listen to a client while trying to find the bug they are describing in the source code. Or make dinner while holding a conversation. Or even have Spiderman-like reflexes when a child falls out of a chair across …
A modern approach to IT observability inspired by hazard analysis. Learn how to improve system reliability, reduce monitoring complexity, and proactively manage service risks through Critical Control Points.
A critical, newly disclosed, and actively exploited vulnerability, CVE-2025-53770, affects all self-hosted / on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Server versions. This critical issue does not impact SharePoint Online (Microsoft 365).
The exploit enables attackers to:
What is the weight of your footprint?
What is the cost of your footprint?
One of the most surprising things I experience when I go from a house to a school bus is the sheer amount of waste we as humans produce. From packaging to paper towels to food scraps to everything else I won’t mention here, it’s a lot. When I am stationary at home, my trash hides …
How many things do you own? How many things are you responsible for?
Every thing we have comes with a cost beyond the purchase price. From maintenance to cleaning to relocating to using: we are required to do much more with our things than we usually think about. Let’s consider a lawn mower: it has the original purchase price, the sales tax if applicable, the time to transport, the space …
Ever wonder why we so often don’t follow through on the goals we set for ourselves? Or why it is so easy to slide back into our old habits?
One part is neurological: our brain is full of established neural pathways that get larger the longer we reinforce the same behavior.
The other part is not having clarity on our values.
We can have all of the “right” motivation, including …