Marketing folks say people don’t buy better, they buy “new capabilities.” Tough bar when you work with AWS. They do everything, technically, but they sure do make it a struggle. Substrate makes AWS easy, secure by default, and ready to grow. All by dinner. substrate.tools

Before your first SOC 2 audit you'll need to define controls that meet the SOC 2 criteria. Part two of our series on SOC 2 compliance explains what controls are, how to read the criteria, and how to define controls that work for your company. blog.substrate.tools/soc2-part2/

Release Notes Notes 2024.03: - AWS public IPv4 charges and their effect on weird things on the Internet - CI products are shockingly bad at posting success/failure to Slack rcrowley.org/rnn/2024.03/

Muad’Dib: [bursts into song] Well there’s chocolate, and there’s choc-o-late Only Lisan-al-Gaib has family a-to-mics

Wondering what's actually going to happen during your first SOC 2 audit? Wonder no more because part three in our series about SOC 2 compliance for startups and first-timers is here! blog.substrate.tools/soc-2-complian…

The final part in my series about SOC 2 compliance is out, covering how to approach your second audit, change your controls, and become more efficient. blog.substrate.tools/soc2-part4/

/me looks at how many replies he just fired off Sam Kottler chose the wrong day to bring up SOC 2, when I'm fired up after finishing 9,000 words on the topic.

Substrate’s far from the only thing startups can adopt to improve their reliability. Here’s @kelp on getting every engineer into an on-call rotation: blog.substrate.tools/who-should-be-…

I have made a thing! rcrowley.org/sideshow/ I wanted web-based slide presentations that were still good HTML documents, so I made exactly that. rcrowley.org/sideshow/examp…

One giant AWS account is technical debt you can’t afford blog.substrate.tools/the-technical-…

Release Notes Notes 2024.04 featuring bugs fixed, talks (to be) given, and Sideshow. rcrowley.org/rnn/2024.04/

Standing AWS access doesn’t have to be a security nightmare and JIT access doesn’t automatically mean it’s better. blog.substrate.tools/better-access-…

Felt funny, might delete later. rcrowley.org/stories/stando…

Disappointed though I am, Mastodon is a pain in the ass and I guess I'm coming back here where my friends are.

Dusted off the ol' blog: Source & Binary has ceased operations rcrowley.org/src-bin/ceased…

Probossibly my last post here, a breadcrumb: Find me on blooskee. bsky.app/profile/rcrowl…

PlanetScale Postgres is the fastest Postgres hosting you can get in AWS and GCP. planetscale.com/blog/planetsca…