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Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 1d

New Security Repo Podcast episode out now!

How do you make the easy way the safe way?
Alyssa Miles dives into developer enablement, identity tooling, and why marketing needs to evolve in security.
📢 Catch the latest episode here:
youtu.be/BexxRwkCPA4

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Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 1d

Next week, I am proud to say I am going to be in Montreal for Forum INCYBER CANADA
If you are thinking about going, I have some good news, or at least a code for 30% of your registration.
Code: CA2520CBSS
northamerica.forum-incyber.com/inscription-...

See you there

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Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 2d

Prompts as code, runtime traces, ablative resilience — Philly showed security is no longer static, it’s a control loop. 🎯 #DevSecOps meets #AIOps.

Read more: blog.gitguardian.com/devops-days-...

DevOps Days Philadelphia 2025: Security As A Control Loop, Resilience, Runtime Risks, And How AI Is Changing It

DevOpsDays Philadelphia 2025 showed how AI governance, secrets security, runtime traces, and ablative resilience work together to reduce operational risk.

blog.gitguardian.com

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 2d

Once again proud to be published over on DZone
dzone.com/articles/who...

Who Governs Your NHIs?

Learn how to shift the conversation from "who’s to blame" to "who has context" in managing non-human identities across modern enterprise IT infrastructure.

dzone.com

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

10 Billion Downloads: Insights and Trends in Open Source

Avi Press

#SREday SF 2025

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Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

Transform chaos experiments into actionable insights using generative AI
Saurabh Kumar (foreground) & Ruskin Dantra

#SREday SF 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

Beyond 100 Petabytes: Why We Built a Custom Exporter to Replace Our OTel Pipeline

Vlad Seliverstov

#SREday SF 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

From Dashboard to Defense: Automating Resilience at Large Scale
by Sureshkumar Karuppuchamy

At #SREday SF 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

Rust-Powered Observability: The Language of Modern Observability
from Prabhat Sharma

at #SREday SF 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

“We’re Down!” to “We’re Good.” — Shipping observability in 2 weeks
From Aditya Bansal
at
#SREday SF 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

The Human Factor in Site Reliability: Designing Automation That Amplifies Engineering

Jimmy Katiyar

at #SREday SF 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

2nd Keynote at #SREday SF 2025
What Observability Can Learn From BI: Decoupling for Speed, Scale, and Flexibility

from Gian Merlino

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

First Keynote at #SREday SF 2025
"No Single Point of (AI) Failure: Agent Maintenance & Model Fallbacks"
from Rohan Gupta

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 6d

#SREday SF Q4 2025 has officially kicked off!!!

Reposted by Dwayne McDaniel

Josh Lee @joshleecreates.bsky.social · 20d

Finally got to meet @didiviking.bsky.social in person at #sreday - her talk showcasing the @victoriametrics.bsky.social cardinality explorer was great!

Josh and Diana take an ussie at SREcon (inside a vintage movie theater)

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Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 8d

Breaking GitOps Bottlenecks: The Power of Sharding

Anuj Tyagi

#DevOpsDays #Philadelphia 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 8d

What the Makefile got right (49 years later)
Benjie De Groot

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 8d

Security isn't about gotchas—it's about people. AriaDear joins us to talk about how empathy transforms the way we enforce security policies.
🎧 Listen in:
youtu.be/HDEgQE8dTkQ

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Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 8d

Follow The Trace: How Traditional AppSec Tools Have Failed Us
from Kennedy Toomey

#DevOpsDays #Philadelphia 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 8d

From YouTube Analytics To Search Patterns That Scale
Walt Ribeiro

#DevOpsDays #Philadelphia 2025

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Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 8d

Is your investment in AI paying off... or just generating more sh*tposts?

Michael A Stahnke

#DevOpsDays #Philadelphia 2025

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Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 8d

Talk SQL to Me: Building a Smarter Query Assistant
From Gamini Singh

#DevOpsDays #Philadelphia 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 8d

Day 2 of #DevOpsDays #Philadelphia 2025 kicks off with:

Strategic Directions in DevOps : AI, DevSecOps and GitOps

from Eric Snyder

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 9d

DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs)
from Josh Lee

#DevOpsDays #Philadelphia 2025

Dwayne McDaniel @mdwayne-real.bsky.social · 9d

Small Batch Delivery: Why Tiny Changes Make a Big Difference
from Scott Howard

#DevOpsDays #Philadelphia 2025