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What is the role of a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)? - Melanie Ensign - Bonus
Host Kevin Riggle interviews Melanie Ensign, former Global Head of Security, Privacy, & Engineering Communications for Uber, about what the role of a CISO (Chief Infor...
He Won George Hotz's Money - Andrey Petrov
Host Kevin Riggle interviews Andrey Petrov about three different incidents he was involved with: A programming mistake in high school that filled its alumni's email in...
The Reporter Called Her Christmas Day - Melanie Ensign - Bug Bounty & Incident Management
Kevin Riggle interviews Melanie Ensign (Discernible Inc.), former Global Head of Security, Privacy, & Engineering Communications for Uber, about building good bug boun...
The Future Is (Literally!) Bright - How Infrastructure Works, by Deb Chachra - Climate, Energy, & the Future
Kevin Riggle interviews Deb Chachra, professor of engineering at Olin College and author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS about climate change, the housing crisis, the gree...
Was Akamai the Velvet Underground of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? - Abhijit Mehta - Bonus
Kevin Riggle interviews Abhijit Mehta about Akamai and its role in the history and development of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Bonus episode outtake from https...
He Broke Turkish Twitter - Abhijit Mehta
Kevin Riggle interviews Abhijit Mehta, who tells how one tiny dot made almost made a massive difference to Twitter's Turkish ad revenue.Abhijit's Twitter: https://twit...
She Missed the Overnight Push! - Julia Lunetta
Kevin Riggle interviews Julia Lunetta, who tells us how an ostensibly minor change caused her employer, a financial institution (Upromise Investments), to miss its ove...
She Made Dropbox Give the Internet Free Watermelon? - Kate Rudolph
Kevin Riggle interviews Kate Rudolph, who tells how a rolled back commit on her intern project resulted in Dropbox, her employer, offering free watermelon to the entir...
He Locked Players Out On Launch Day - Zachery Johnson
Kevin Riggle interviews Zachery Johnson, who tells how an innocent command doomed the database servers and locked players out of Diablo II: Resurrected on Day 2 of lau...
Twelve Lines of Code Took Down the Whole Company - Patrick O'Doherty
Kevin Riggle interviews Patrick O'Doherty, who tells how a seemingly-simple configuration change one Friday morning led to a massive outage.Patrick's web site: https:/...
He Broke (part of) The Internet - Willie Williams
Kevin Riggle interviews Willie Williams, who tells the story of the time he accidentally took down a major site while an intern at Akamai.Willie's Twitter: https://twi...