Posts Tagged "Infrastructure"

Put Dex In Front of Google OAuth

Google OAuth has two surprises that make every internal-service auth story uglier than it should be. The standard workaround involves domain-wide delegation and a service account JSON key shipped to every application that wants group-based authorization. There is a much better answer that doesn't require any of that.

Web3 Is Just Infrastructure With a Hoodie

Everything in Web3 is something you already know. Wallet signing is SSH authentication v2, smart contracts are RPC endpoints with public immutable code, and the trust model is the same "verify, don't trust" principle that drives every good infrastructure system.

Security Is Infrastructure

Security and infrastructure are not two disciplines that happen to overlap. They are one discipline that companies have artificially separated because org charts demand clean boxes and job postings demand clean titles.

Puppets and Octopi: Why Top-Down Orchestration Hits a Wall

Centralized, imperative orchestration requires centralized coordination, and centralized coordination is a bottleneck that doesn't scale. Distributed, declarative convergence pushes intelligence to the edges.

One Shot OpenStack Liberty Installer

A single script that creates a full OpenStack Liberty cloud from nothing, demonstrating an infrastructure-as-code approach to cloud deployment.