TL;DR I’m working remotely for 145+ days. (March 2020) Setup In this post, I will describe my setup for Work From Home (WFH) @ zoph.io. I’m now using this setup daily since March 2020 due to the pandemic crisis. Compute I’ve been using macOS for 24 years now 👴. My first ever computer was a Performa 5200 (with TV Tuner card inside folks!! 📺). Nowadays, I’m using a MacBook Pro 13" 2.8 GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD. ...
TL;DR I’m now using PGP for archive file encryption. The trigger This summer, I read Permanent Record from Edward Snowden, “Ed” for those in the know. I was pretty impressed at how a government organization with a multi-billion dollar budget can organize a mass surveillance program at a worldwide scale in only a few decades. “Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.” ...
This post was updated in July 2020. It was originally my first post on this blog in December 2016. 👴 I’m often asked by many colleagues, friends, or Twitter followers where to start with Amazon Web Services (AWS). In this post, I will try to explain where you should start in 2020. I’ll try to write this post as I wish I had when I got into this technology in 2016. ...
This post was co-authored by Teddy Ferdinand. Who is working as Cloud Security Architect 🐻 Introduction In this series, we will talk about the emergence of the DevSecOps movement, and more especially, what the benefits are of introducing a DevSecOps approach to your existing CI/CD Pipelines. CI/CD Pipeline To give you some context, you will find in the diagram below a standard DevOps CI/CD Pipeline. DevSecWhat? DevSecOps could be defined as a shift from a central internal security team to the inclusion of security practices in the existing DevOps teams: DevSecOps 🎉 ...
This post is the second part of a series about my journey as an Independent AWS Cloud Architect. Status As I already told you in the first part, I started my own business in early January 2020. After the first 6 months of being an Independent AWS Architect in France, I’m very happy with this move, no regret, and I don’t see any upcoming U-turn to come back as a full-time employee. ...