Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus and Rich Staats of Secret Stache conclude their encryption series by discussing symmetric cryptography and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Some of the highlights of the show include: Quality Control of Voice Assistance: Apple claims only your phone, not Apple or Siri, knows…

In Part 3 of their series on encryption, Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus and Rich Staats of Secret Stache discuss end-to-end encryption in practice. Some of the highlights of the show include: Episode 73, Part 1 Recap: Essential encryption pieces (hashing) and categories (symmetric vs. public keys) …

Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus and Rich Staats of Secret Stache continue their series on encryption to discuss transport layer security (TLS) in practice. Some of the highlights of the show include: Episode 73, Part 1 Recap: Essential encryption pieces (hashing) and categories (symmetric vs. public keys) …

Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus and Rich Staats of Secret Stache begin a series of episodes focused on encryption — starting with the essentials. Some of the highlights of the show include: Encryption: Everybody depends on it, but most don’t understand it Transmitting sensitive information, such as…

Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus and Rich Staats of Secret Stache continue their discussion on growing high-performing remote and international engineering teams. Some of the highlights of the show include: Current Culture and Change Perspective: Identify processes, strengths, areas for improvement, attitude, and environment related to people…

Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus, along with Rich Staats of Secret Stache, discuss lessons learned while working with remote and international engineering teams. Some of the highlights of the show include: Jon’s Excellent Experience: Most of his career has been working with international team members, some went…

Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus continue their Microservices Bootcamp with Part 2: Sizing, Decomposition, and Dismantling the Monolith. Some of the highlights of the show include: Sizing Guidelines: Consider familiarity/comfort level, team size, and cognitive load Learn from Experience: Document dependencies, deployment, issues, etc. Pain Threshold: Fix…

Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus kick-off their Microservices Bootcamp with Part 1: Designing and Sizing Your Microservices. They answer the essential questions of: What, why, and how? Some of the highlights of the show include: What is a microservice? Process of factoring business capabilities or logic into…

Chris Hickman and Jon Christensen of Kelsus and Rich Staats of Secret Stache discuss using custom CloudWatch metrics to monitor disk space. Some of the highlights of the show include: Trade Secrets: What you can do to monitor, manage, and not run out of disk space Consumption Culprits: Apps…