Building Real Software

Developing and Maintaining Secure and Reliable Software in the Real World

Friday, May 22, 2015

Appsec: The gaps between Builders and Defenders

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This year's SANS Institute State of Application Security Survey , which I worked on with Eric Johnson and Frank Kim, looks at the gaps ...
Friday, May 8, 2015

DevOps is Killing Maintenance. Let’s Celebrate.

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DevOps probably isn't killing developers . But it is changing how people think about development - from running projects to a focus...
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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Can DevOps(Sec) make Software more Secure?

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There was a lot of talk at RSA this year about DevOps and security: DevOpsSec or DevSecOps or Rugged DevOps or whatever people want to cal...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Backdoors, Sabotage or Just Plain Stupidity

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Someone on your development team, or a contractor or a consultant, or one of your sys admins, or a bad guy who stole one of these people’s...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Towards Compliance as Code

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Infrastructure as Code is fundamental to DevOps. Automating the work of setting up and maintaining systems infrastructure. Making it de...
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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Making Refactoring Work

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A recent academic study raises some questions about how useful and how important refactoring really is. The researchers found that r...
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Putting Security into Sprints

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To build a secure app, you can’t wait to the end and hope to “test security in”. For teams who follow Agile methods like Scrum, this means ...
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Jim Bird
I am an experienced software development manager, project manager and CTO focused on hard problems in software development, software quality and security. For the last 20 years I have managed teams building and operating high-performance financial platforms. My special interest is how small teams can be most effective in building real software: high-quality, secure systems at the extreme limits of reliability, performance, and adaptability. Software that has to work, that is built right, and built to last. I use this blog to explore ideas and problems in software development that are important to me. To reflect and to find new answers.
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