Summary This article describes three distinct architectures for implementing application user authentication: Service-level authentication API-gateway authentication Service-mesh authentication In the sections below, we have outlined the pros and cons associated with each along with our recommendations for implementation. 1. Service-level authentication With this architecture, services are responsible for implementing authentication. In most cases, this…

We encounter a lot of organizations talking about or attempting to implement SRE as part of our consulting at Real Kinetic. We’ve even discussed and debated ourselves, ad nauseam, how we can apply it at our own product company, Witful. There’s a brief, unassuming section in the SRE book tucked…

2020 was a strange and difficult year that I’m sure most are eager to forget. This is certainly true for us at Real Kinetic. However, there was some silver lining that made 2020 particularly interesting for us despite the year’s hardships. That’s because, pandemic notwithstanding, we managed to quietly launch…

Real Kinetic often works with companies just beginning their cloud journey. Many come from a conventional on-prem IT organization, which typically looks like separate development and IT operations groups. One of the main challenges we help these clients with is how to structure their engineering organizations effectively as they make…

I’ve worked as a software engineer, manager, consultant, and business owner. All of these jobs have involved meetings. What those meetings look like has varied greatly. As an engineer, meetings typically entailed technical conversations with peers, one-on-ones with managers, and planning meetings or demos with stakeholders. As a manager, these…

I’ve worked as a software engineer, manager, consultant, and business owner. All of these jobs have involved meetings. What those meetings look like has varied greatly. As an engineer, meetings typically entailed technical conversations with peers, one-on-ones with managers, and planning meetings or demos with stakeholders. As a manager, these…

Part of what we do at Real Kinetic is give companies confidence to ship software in the cloud. Many of our clients are large organizations that have been around for a long time but who don’t always have much experience when it comes to cloud. Others are startups and mid-sized…

AWS Glue is a managed service for building ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) jobs. It’s a useful tool for implementing analytics pipelines in AWS without having to manage server infrastructure. Jobs are implemented using Apache Spark and, with the help of Development Endpoints, can be built using Jupyter notebooks. This makes it reasonably…

Written by Nick Joyce In part one, we defined what chaos testing is, the goals, and how to implement it effectively. …