Tanukis with Hammers: The dangers of third-party tooling
A presentation at Deserted Island DevOps by Laura Santamaria
Tanukis with Hammers The dangers of third-party tooling Laura Santamaria Developer Advocate @nimbinatus | #DIDevOps2121
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@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Heartbleed https://heartbleed.com/
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 2020 Government Hack and 2013 Target hack
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Parler’s data failure https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parler_logo.png
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 left-pad (The Infamous Package)
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 What happened?
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Allure
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Speed
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Shift of Liability
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Cognitive Overload
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Danger!
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Going Down!
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Quality?
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Failures, Breaches, and Errors (oh my)!
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 No Knowledge!
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 What do you do?
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Tradeoffs and evaluations
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Protection
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Mitigation
@nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21 Don’t be afraid of third-party systems
Let the tanukis upgrade your house (Thanks) https://nimbinatus.com https://logdna.com @nimbinatus | #DIDevOps21
It’s lovely to spend time decorating your house and grounds while tanukis come in mysteriously and upgrade your house when you’re not watching. It’s also lovely to build on top of other tooling so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. However, what would happen if Timmy and Tommy decided to tell Mr. Nook that they’d rather watch for shooting stars one night? Do you understand how your third-party tooling works, or, more importantly, why it was built in the first place? Many platforms have been built on third-party tooling without thinking about the full implications of what happens when different systems might go down, and those platforms fall apart when there’s an issue because the folks who built them don’t understand how that third-party tooling they relied on works in the first place. We want to avoid that reckoning, but how? How can we be sure our houses will get upgraded if Timmy and Tommy were to go on strike? Let’s talk about it.
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