Final talk I'll be getting to at #VelocityConf before I dash to Toronto: @IanColdwater on improving container security on k8s. @IanColdwater She focuses on hardening her employer's cloud container infrastructure, including doing work on k8s.

She also was an ethical hacker before she went into DevOps and DevSecOps. #VelocityConf

My colleague @sethvargo on microservice security at #VelocityConf: traditionally we've thought of traditional security as all-or-nothing -- that you put the biggest possible padlock on your perimeter, and you have a secure zone and untrusted zone. @sethvargo We know that monoliths don't actually work, so we're moving towards microservices. But how does this change your security model?

You might have a loadbalancer that has software-defined rules. And you have a variety of compartmentalized networks. #VelocityConf

Leading off the k8s track today is @krisnova on migrating monoliths to k8s! #VelocityConf @krisnova [ed: p.s. her ponies and rainbows dress is A+++]

She starts by providing a resources link: j.hept.io/velocity-nyc-2…

The problems we're solving:
(1) why are monoliths harder to migrate?
(2) Should you?
(3) How do I start?
(4) Best practices #VelocityConf

Final keynote block: @lxt of Mozilla on practical ethics and user data. #VelocityConf @lxt And also ethics of experimentation!

"just collect data and figure out later how you'll use it" doesn't work any more. #VelocityConf

Next up is @mrb_bk on why marketing matters. #VelocityConf @mrb_bk Hypothesis: marketing >> code in terms of software adoption. [ed: and this is why I became a developer advocate!] #VelocityConf

Next up is @rogerm on O'Reilly's insights into trends with Radar. #VelocityConf @rogerm They look at changes in search terms year on year; the two largest increases are k8s and blockchain. #VelocityConf

Next is my colleague @rakyll on distributed tracing!! #VelocityConf @rakyll In a big city, you learn to deal with large scale and navigating your way around, in an environment that has a lot of chaos and data.

And sometimes things don't go according to plan if you encounter construction, etc. along the way. #VelocityConf

First up at #VelocityConf this morning: @tammybutow on chaos engineering to increase resilience! @tammybutow She's been doing chaos engineering since 2009. But she wants to encourage people to do Chaos Days the same way that they do Hack Days - to build resilience into teams and products. #VelocityConf

I'm excited to see @alicegoldfuss's talk on container operations for the first time! #VelocityConf @alicegoldfuss She's telling us about the idyllic picture painted by advertisements (for instance, for cars) with the fancy 0-60 numbers... vs. the tiny small words "laboratory setting" or "test track". #VelocityConf

Final speaker of morning keynotes: @kavya719 on real-world data to analyze performance of systems and end user experience without breaking the bank. #VelocityConf @kavya719 Think about performance and capacity: you can use the "YOLO" method, or do load simulation; but the better approach is performance modeling.

Represent your system by a theoretical modelj, get results, and translate back to your system. #VelocityConf

Next up is my colleague @drensin on why #SRE and #DevOps are friends! (likely quoting me and @sethvargo a bunch) #VelocityConf @drensin @sethvargo [ed: full disclosure, this is a sponsored talk.]

How many people have heard of SRE? like 80% of people. But 3 years ago, it was crickets. #VelocityConf

Next up is @francesc [ed: <3 <3 <3 my former colleagues!] on why machine learning will make programming better! #VelocityConf @francesc Is software eating the world? The number of LOC is increasing dramatically -- tens of millions of LOC for Chrome, Windows, etc.

And *cars* have hundreds of millions of LOC. #VelocityConf

Next #VelocityConf speaker is @jessicamckellar on ending mass incarceration. She spends a lot of time in prisons, including San Quentin. @jessicamckellar 800 people on death row; the largest death row in the Western Hemisphere.

She works on "The Last Mile" project, which prepares incarcerated individuals for successful re-entry into society with job/skills training. #VelocityConf

Next up at #VelocityConf is @laurentgil [sponsored talk] about the audience vs. the Internet and security risks. @laurentgil Prefix advertisement/hijacking attacks for DNS servers; falsified resolver results being returned for a phishing Ukrainian server. [ed: doesn't SSL save us from this?] #VelocityConf

Leading off: @anildash at #VelocityConf, who is "from the internet." He wants to start with reminding us that technology isn't just a dumpster fire, that it can be used for good as well. But that the problems we're causing are getting worse. @anildash "How did this happen?" asks @anildash. "We mostly mean well; there aren't many mustache-twirling villains except for Thiel who drinks the blood of young people." #VelocityConf

#hugops to the Facebook security engineering team. This ain't an occasion to gloat, folks. From what we know at the moment, this wasn't a case of negligence or disregard for user safety (unlike the 2FA marketing thing which I *do* think was actually awful and merits criticism).

[cw abuse] There's a reason that I didn't want to watch Kavanaugh testifying -- my biological father, who is an attorney, had a temper and destroyed physical objects in front of me and my biological mother. And, (luckily only) once, he lost his temper bad enough to strike me.

https://twitter.com/abigaildisney/status/1045443376835899392

My biological father is, by the way, in theory a proponent of LGB rights (and received LGBT+ orgs' awards from his anti-Prop 8 brief before the CA Supreme Court).

But having a trans daughter in his household and not having a son any more? That set him off in an abusive rage.

I feel this. I feel a duty to bear witness. even if I don't actually have to in reality.

https://twitter.com/Delafina777/status/1045354816711483392

I listened to her initial statement and about 20 minutes of questioning before deciding that I didn't need to further put myself through listening to a prosecutor trying to trip her up.

She shouldn't be on trial, yet she is. And I still believe her and appreciate her sacrifice.

I'm excited for a talk @epsalon is giving on what SREs can learn from air disasters, that they kindly gave me permission to livetweet from an otherwise confidential summit! @epsalon Why should SREs care to learn from other industries? We're less mature than other industries, and can learn lessons about why they have such a better safety record than we do. -- @epsalon

It is apparently within the Twitter rules to send death threats, including images of a gun being readied to shoot at people with the text "Their time is coming to an end", in response to a tweet containing a screenshot of my twitter profile.

@TwitterSupport I can't get away from this by leaving this platform, btw -- this is a problem that Twitter needs to solve that my abstention from the platform isn't going to make an impact on. And indeed, I can't leave this platform as I need it for my work.

Okay, it is Saturday at 3:30pm and I have *finally* finished all of my peer reviews after a long week of conference work and my old team's summit.

I will definitely be taking some extra time to relax and lay low next week...

Maybe a celebration gaming stream tonight! Actually, no, not a gaming stream, because apparently it's "harass Liz on the internet" time again.