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Toil: Still Plaguing Engineering Teams by Damon Edwards

PagerDuty

This blog is an update from a popular blog authored by Damon Edwards. . semi-manual deployments, schema updates/rollbacks, changing storage quotas, network changes, user adds, adding capacity, DNS changes, service failover). For the organization, high-levels of toil lead to: Shortages of team capacity.

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Cloud Data Security Challenges, Part 3: Getting Control

Pure Storage

As an example, you should always require security verification (authentication and authorization controls) for downloads to and from unsecured devices. . PX-Backup can continually sync two FlashBlade appliances at two different data centers for immediate failover. Create good technical controls.