Tag: Ownership

Kubernetes/OpenShift Resource Protection with Limit Ranges and Resource Quotas

Kubernetes/OpenShift Resource Protection with Limit Ranges and Resource Quotas

by and | Technology

One of the most crucial metrics of success for an enterprise application platform is if the platform can protect: a) the applications running on it, and b) itself (and its underlying infrastructure). All threats to an application platform eventually come from something within that platform – an application can be hacked, and then it attacks other applications; or there could be a privilege escalation attack going after the underlying host infrastructure; or an application can accidentally hoard platform resources, choking out other apps from being able to run.

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Plan Replace Me

Plan Replace Me

by | Community, Leadership, Organizations, People

One of the greatest things about being a leader, for us, is building deep, enduring relationships with the people and teams we work with.

One of the hardest things, for us, about being a leader is leaving the relationships we’ve built. This is a sad, painful process. We love people a lot, and we keep leaving, maybe because there are always more dragons to teach people how to slay.

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Why Developers Love SonarQube

Why Developers Love SonarQube

by and | Human Architecture, Organizations, Processes, Technology

We’ve seen a lot of tool transitions across a large enterprise, and one of the coolest examples was changing the opinion of the company we worked for regarding source code analysis. We had a tool that was under-licensed, slow, ineffective, and largely ignored. At best, it was a check box labeled “we’re definitely secure, you guys!” that everyone on the ground ignored.

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Libertarian Enterprise Governance

Libertarian Enterprise Governance

by and | Leadership, Organizations, People, Technology

Be Good

There is freedom and peace and pride in being truly good at something.

Not to seem good.

Not to check off the boxes of good.

But to actually be good.

Everyone should have the freedom to be actually good.

Establishing governance philosophy in an enterprise is a tricky combination of “how much do we trust our people?” and “okay, but how much do we actually trust our people?” The fact is, people are going to screw up. Some of them might deliberately try to screw something up, but mostly they’ll just make mistakes. If the organization can’t handle mistakes, that’s a problem with the adaptability and flexibility of the organization, not with its people. This means that people’s potential mistakes are not a reason to default to not trusting them.

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Accountability and Responsibility

Accountability and Responsibility

by and | Organizations, People

Accountability and responsibility sound like the same thing. They definitely represent the same concept – ownership. 

  • “This thing is mine.”
  • “I got this.”
  • “I want this to be successful so hard that I will make sure it succeeds.”

In fact, the concepts of accountability and responsibility are very close. There’s one main difference, though: 

Accountability is ownership by an individual. Responsibility is ownership shared by a group.

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