Category: Cloud
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Docker confused me for longer than I like to admit. I understood the words individually. Image. Container. Volume. Port. None sounded difficult. Put them together in a terminal command, though, and it felt like operating rented machinery without the paperwork. Then I joined a small project where setup took most of an afternoon. The app…
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Kubernetes made no sense to me the first few times somebody explained it. The explanation always began calmly and then filled with pods, nodes, clusters, deployments, services and orchestration. After ten minutes, I understood every individual word and absolutely nothing about why a company would want the thing. Then I watched a small team operate…
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A security camera outside an office noticed movement at two in the morning. The video travelled to a remote cloud service, which analysed it and sent an alert. By the time the notification arrived, the moving object had left. It was a plastic bag. No disaster. Just an example of strange technology architecture. A camera…
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A software team wants to test customer-support software. The obvious option is copying production data into a test environment. It is also the sort of idea that makes a security person stop chewing. Real customer data contains names, addresses, account details, conversations and all the strange combinations that make testing useful. It also brings privacy…