Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
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Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
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Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#2Meh. This opinion highlights the fact that availability is the least understood pillar in security. The Right Way to Think About It is having good security analysis and doing proper Risk Management. This means it is their job to do business impact analysis, 3rd party assessments, and run tabletop exercises on all your critical systems to tell you what is rock solid and what is a house of cards.
Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#3Redundancy is a proven way to build resilience into your infrastructure. Ownership does not mean you have to build it. OP is correct that you need to understand it all, but that understanding also allows for solid DR plans that use multiple providers for a resilient infrastructure.
Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#4Redundancy is a proven way to build resilience into your infrastructure. Ownership does not mean you have to build it. OP is correct that you need to understand it all, but that understanding also allows for solid DR plans that use multiple providers for a resilient infrastructure.
An alternative to multiple providers is to use commoditized providers. By using simple infrastructure rather than cloud platforms, I can redploy my infrastructure using ansible with another provider in hours rather than re-building my platform if I decide the cloud is the wrong fit.
Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#5Meh. This opinion highlights the fact that availability is the least understood pillar in security. The Right Way to Think About It is having good security analysis and doing proper Risk Management. This means it is their job to do business impact analysis, 3rd party assessments, and run tabletop exercises on all your critical systems to tell you what is rock solid and what is a house of cards.
How you approach this is very different depending on the size of organization. We're a small shop (3), but we deliver big services to lots of people.
We do this by owning everything we can, and using simple vendors for what we can't.
Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#6Recoverable master and short dns ttl
Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#7Yeah but my DevOps only know Aws or Cloudflare UIs and refuse to consider any other platforms. The leadership sees multiple bills as bad. Back to square one? No one will learn anything because people enjoy the pseudo holiday for problems they set themselves up to do nothing about.
Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#8Redundancy is a proven way to build resilience into your infrastructure. Ownership does not mean you have to build it. OP is correct that you need to understand it all, but that understanding also allows for solid DR plans that use multiple providers for a resilient infrastructure.
An alternative to multiple providers is to use commoditized providers. By using simple infrastructure rather than cloud platforms, I can redploy my infrastructure using ansible with another provider in hours rather than re-building my platform if I decide the cloud is the wrong fit.
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Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#9Redundancy is a proven way to build resilience into your infrastructure. Ownership does not mean you have to build it. OP is correct that you need to understand it all, but that understanding also allows for solid DR plans that use multiple providers for a resilient infrastructure.
An alternative to multiple providers is to use commoditized providers. By using simple infrastructure rather than cloud platforms, I can redploy my infrastructure using ansible with another provider in hours rather than re-building my platform if I decide the cloud is the wrong fit.
An aside: it looks like there is a certificate error for https://certkit.com/ as it's for *.mscertkit.com (this was on Chromium + Linux)
Re: Build vs. Buy: What This Week's Outages Should Teach You
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
An alternative to multiple providers is to use commoditized providers. By using simple infrastructure rather than cloud platforms, I can redploy my infrastructure using ansible with another provider in hours rather than re-building my platform if I decide the cloud is the wrong fit.
An aside: it looks like there is a certificate error for https://certkit.com/ as it's for *.mscertkit.com (this was on Chromium + Linux)
wow, yea. that's foolish. Fixing.