SLOs and GHGs
Learn how to measure the carbon emissions of your software using service-level objectives and reduce the impact your system has on the planet.
Authors: Bill Johnson
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Oncall: An Equal-Opportunity Waste of Time
Dave O'Connor engages in some spirited book-ripping about how we staff oncall teams.
Authors: Dave O'Connor
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
Untangling the Cloud
Draw technical borders to divide your cloud resources into groupings that follow the logical boundaries of your systems and your organization.
Authors: Joshua Fox
Article shepherded by: Laura Nolan
LISA made LISA obsolete (That's a compliment!)
My memories (good and bad) of the USENIX LISA conference.
Authors: Thomas A. Limoncelli
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Experimental Security Analysis of the App Model in Business Collaboration Platforms
These third-party apps that you installed in your Slack/Teams workspace may violate your privacy expectations in many unexpected ways.
Authors: Yunang Chen, Yue Gao, Nick Ceccio, Rahul Chatterjee, Kassem Fawaz, Earlence Fernandes
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Python Distilled
Python Distilled teaches you how to get the most out of Python 3 in a short book with lots of examples and clear explanations.
Authors: Rik Farrow
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Wanted Hacked or Patched:
A targeted open source bug bounty initiative that allows users to secure third party code by crowdsourcing the security analysis to external researchers.
Authors: Chujiao Ma, Matthew Bosack, Wendy Rothschell, Noopur Davis, Vaibhav Garg
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
Provably-Safe Multilingual Software Sandboxing using WebAssembly
WebAssembly’s safety guarantees are only as strong as the implementation enforcing them. We show two approaches to provably sandbox Wasm code, using formal verification and Rust.
Authors: Jay Bosamiya, Wen Shih Lim, Bryan Parno
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow
The Sticky Problem of Measuring Passwords
Designing a tool that can take measurements on password has many challenges. We describe the process behind designing Gossamer, a framework for securely measuring passwords.
Authors: Marina Sanusi Bohuk, Mazharul Islam, Thomas Ristenpart, Rahul Chatterjee
Article shepherded by: Rik Farrow