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2022
IDBS and the Log4j2 Vulnerability
Some people see December as the month that brings lots of gifts, but in 2021 it included several that no one wanted, including a critical security vulnerabil...
2021
Continuous Integration @ IDBS
Originally this was to be a quick post highlighting that IDBS engineering is moving to trunk-based development, but it occurred to me, as a new member of the...
Container Competition
Last year, Nathan invited us to take part in a little internal competition. The idea was to get people to play with Docker in a way that they might not other...
2020
Tips for remote meetings
Thanks to Covid, my days are mainly spent on video calls & screen shares. It’s not just me of course, everyone’s doing it - even my daughter has online l...
Managing multiple Kubernetes clusters
Working with multiple Kubernetes (K8s) clusters has become commonplace, thanks to the availability of managed clusters by every major cloud provider and adva...
Team Identity - a tale of pirates
Let me tell you a story…
Links we like - Jan 2020
Our software architects attended AWS re:Invent. There were a lot of great sessions out there but there were a few that really stood out to us that we’d like ...
2019
GitHub Actions - CI/CD Without Leaving the Comfort of Your Repo
Not content with threatening the package repository space with the announcement of its Registry offering, GitHub looks to upset the increasingly crowded CI t...
Links we like - Sept 2019
Here are some of the interesting links we’ve seen over the past month
Auto Expiration Of Transient Quay.io Images
If you use a Quay.io repository to store Dockerfile images that can be regarded as transient, e.g. branch integration tests, then you can tag those Docker im...
Headless browser testing: a play around with Taiko
Unit test frameworks for libraries like React are incredibly powerful and allow developers to write tests that test both rendering and actions within an appl...
2017
Keynote - Cloud Security Summit
Wes Childs was invited to present a keynote at the 2017 Cloud Security Summit, London. This talk covers our journey to the cloud and you can watch it here: ...