Deploying software to a container presents a different security model than deploying an application to a VM. There is a smaller attack surface per container, but the container is colocated on a node with other containers. Containers are meant to have a shorter lifetime than VMs, so there are generally fewer consequences if a container

Play Podcast (extra): Download (Duration: 42:04 — 29.0MB) The new KDE Plasma beta and the future of Xubuntu.   KDE Plasma 5.13 beta and Berlin Sprint Jonathan Riddell talks about the recent KDE sprint …

Josh and Kurt talk about the security of automation as well as automating security. The only way automation will really work long term is full automation. Humans can’t be trusted enough to rely on …

Gloo is a function gateway built on top of the popular open source project Envoy. The goal of Gloo is to decouple client-facing APIs from upstream APIs. Gloo is similar to an API gateway, which is a tool that software companies can use to collect all their APIs and one place and impose security, monitoring,

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 53:53 — 37.1MB) A new Fedora release and big news from red hat, Stallman throws his weight around, 32-bit is dying, Snap store malware SHOCKER, email encryption …

Julia Grace joined the show to talk bout about scaling all the things at Slack. Julia is currently the Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at Slack, and has been their since 2015 — so she’s seen Slack during its hyper-growth. We talked about Slack’s growth and scale challenges, scaling engineering teams, the ...

Alexis Le-Quoc started Datadog in 2010, after living through the Internet boom and bust cycle of the late 90s and early 2000s. In 2010, cloud was just starting to become popular. There was a gap in the market for infrastructure monitoring tools, which Alexis helped fill with the first version of Datadog. Since 2010, the

Ire Aderinokun is a self-taught UI/UX Designer and Front-End Developer working in Lagos, Nigeria. She is currently the Technical Lead at Big Cabal Media. She says the Next Billion Users are coming online now and they'll be outside Western countries and they'll be mobile first. What do we need to know as Web Developers to create great apps and sites for the Next Billion?

Technology is pushing us rapidly toward a future that is impossible to forecast. We try to imagine what that future might look like, and we can’t help having our predictions shaped by the media we have consumed. 1984, Terminator, Gattaca, Ex Machina, Black Mirror–all of these stories present a dystopian future. But if you look

Play Podcast (extra): Download (Duration: 35:18 — 24.3MB) A new sister show is born! Joe finds out about the recent Fedora 28 release and the upcoming beta of elementary OS 5.   Fedora 28 Matthew …

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 50:34 — 34.8MB) Oracle are at it again, GNOME can talk to your phone, Microsoft has fully embraced Linux, Germany loves Nextcloud, and we have a look at Ubuntu …

Welcome back to the Tech Fugitives podcast.  No Safe spaces today.  Straight talk from the “No A-hole” zone with Chef CTO, Adam Jacob. Just because you’re infrastructure is code, doesn’t mean you’re not an A-Hole.  Don’t be that person…Listen to Adam Jacobs.  Chef was clearly the tip of the sword during the birth of DevOps.  …

Keybase is a platform for managing public key infrastructure. Keybase’s products simplify the complicated process of associating your identity with a public key. Keybase is the subject of the first half of today’s show. Michael Maxim, an engineer from Keybase gives an overview of how the technology works and what kinds of applications Keybase unlocks.

MVVM, Functional Reactive Programming, Redux, Reactive, or just straight up code behind! There are so many options out there and has been a huge debate. We sit down and discuss some architecture including Frank's latest experiment: Immutable UI.

Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem were some of the original hires at the User Research Labs at Microsoft. The worked on the exploratory user research that produced the taskbar and Start menu, as well as the iterative research that helped nail down the details. How did the Start Menu and Start Button come to be?

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:05:36 — 45.1MB) It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev …

Stripe processes payments for thousands of businesses. A single payment could involve 10 different networked services. If a payment fails, engineers need to be able to diagnose what happened. The root cause could lie in any of those services. Distributed tracing is used to find the causes of failures and latency within networked services. In

Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which conferences to send talks to. Also, the longest Datadog ad read ever.

Thinking about getting into freelancing and wondering what the long term impacts of working for yourself might be? Or perhaps you've been working for yourself for some time and want to see how your experiences stack up? Battle-scarred veteran freelancer of joins us to talk about the challenges of working for yourself long term. We'll look at isolation, avoidance and motivation, offering tips and tricks to help you do more.

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Josh and Kurt talk to Rami Saas, the CEO of WhiteSource about 3rd party open source security as well as open source licensing. …

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 43:07 — 29.7MB) With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that …

Josh and Kurt talk about Let’s Encrypt with co-founder Josh Aas. We discuss the past, present, and future of the project. …

Frank & Jos of Nextcloud join to discuss their fork of ownCloud, the history & the reaction by ownCloud. Plus Valve's Steam Machines, Oracle vs Google & more!

This week we discuss last Friday's passing of our dear friend and colleague Jerry Pournelle, when AI is turned to evil purpose, whether and when Google's Chrome browser will warn o…

Risky Business #467 -- HPKP as an attack vector

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The number of ways that applications can fail is numerous. Disks fail all the time. Servers overheat. Network connections get flaky. You assume that you are prepared for such a scenario because you have replicated your servers. You have the database backed up. Your core application is spread across multiple availability zones. But are you