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**Marc Boorshtein:** I'm a GUI guy. I'm enterprise. I love my GUIs. |
**Justin Garrison:** Yeah. I mean, in the GitOps war or whatever it is out there, there's a lot of opinions on either side, and I'm just kind of curious. I think I've seen more and more people going towards Argo now. |
**Marc Boorshtein:** Yeah. And I'm actually talking at ArgoCon next week about multi-cluster identity in Argo. |
**Justin Garrison:** By the time this comes out, it'll be two weeks in the past, so... |
**Marc Boorshtein:** Two weeks. So I've already talked about Argo. \[unintelligible 01:05:47.17\] |
**Justin Garrison:** Awesome. Well, thank you so much, Marc, for coming on the show. Thank you, everyone, for listening this week, and we will talk to you again soon. |
**Marc Boorshtein:** Thanks for having me. |
• The hosts, Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash, discuss their personal experiences with cold weather in California compared to other regions. |
• Upcoming guest Chris Swan will talk about open SSSF scorecards, a security metric for open source software. |
• The hosts share interesting links they've found recently, including: |
• A list of leap day bugs that occurred due to the extra day in February. |
• Prescription orders delayed at US pharmacies due to a cyber attack. |
• Concerns about technology's impact on critical infrastructure, such as pharmacies, and the potential consequences for people relying on life-saving medication. |
• Discussion of AI's increasing presence in daily life and the need to consider its limitations and vulnerabilities. |
• Ransomware attacks and their financial implications, with references to a recent law enforcement victory against a ransom group. |
• The stress and desperation caused by prescription medication shortages and the rise of spam and robocalls preying on vulnerable individuals, particularly older adults. |
• Personal anecdotes about navigating complex insurance systems and the high costs of medications. |
• The White House's initiative to promote memory-safe languages, such as Rust, for writing software. |
• Discussion of Cobalt and its vulnerabilities |
• Importance of memory-safe languages in secure coding practices |
• Military and government applications' need for stable infrastructure |
• Update of legacy technology with modern technical applications |
• Security concerns in open-source software, including code trust and best practices |
• Century's product launch week, featuring new metrics offering and AI-powered features |
• Mobile app development capabilities and performance enhancements |
• Open SFF (Open Source Security Foundation) and its focus on securing the supply chain |
• Scorecards: a badge for GitHub repos, indicating security score out of 10 based on various security metrics |
• Implementation as a GitHub Action, checking for known vulnerabilities, dependency management, and other security practices |
• Gamification aspect of scorecards, encouraging developers to improve security through visible progress and competition |
• Challenges in achieving high scores, with diminishing returns after reaching 80% security compliance |
• Scorecard for evaluating open-source projects |
• Scoring system based on security best practices |
• Visual representation (e.g., red, yellow, green) to indicate score |
• Tool uses GitHub API to gather data from repositories |
• Large organizations (e.g., Google, Intel) adopting and implementing scorecards |
• Versioning of scorecard specifications to ensure up-to-date assessments |
• Challenges of maintaining accuracy as new tools and best practices emerge |
• Security posture and continuous improvement |
• Challenges in open-source projects, including different approaches to security and contribution processes |
• Scorecard tool and its ability to provide a common framework for evaluating security and contributing to open-source projects |
• Scoring system with binary checks (pass/fail) and spectrum-based checks (scored 0-10) |
• Gaming the system and potential challenges in achieving accurate scores |
• Applying scorecard to different types of repositories, including docs repos, with creative testing approaches |
• Cultural impact of using scorecard on organization's approach to security and contribution processes |
• Markdown is now consistently formatted in repos, making it easier for contributors. |
• Linting markdown files has become a norm. |
• The scorecard project can serve as a gateway for newcomers to contribute to open source by starting with simple tasks like fixing documentation or linting code. |
• Hacktoberfest participation was impacted when the organization stopped giving away t-shirts. |
• Documentation is often overlooked and underappreciated, but it's crucial for users to understand how to use software. |
• Gatekeeping around contributions, such as typo corrections or minor updates, can be counterproductive. |
• The importance of documentation in making software accessible and understandable. |
• Dependency pinning as a learning opportunity |
• Importance of hands-on experience in tech to build confidence |
• Supply chain security and openSSF's focus on securing software supply chains |
• Scorecards' role in measuring security quality and attention in projects |
• Challenges with maintaining dependencies, such as frequent updates and vulnerabilities |
• Limited tooling for verifying signed artifacts in some ecosystems |
• Concerns about pinning dependencies and maintaining a scorecard for vulnerabilities |
• Discussion on the benefits and challenges of having a software bill of materials (SBOM) |
• The impact of the federal government's executive order mandating SBOMs on industry practices |
• The trade-off between security and experimentation in personal projects vs. professional work |
• The importance of being conscious about active projects and archiving repos when necessary |
• The cost of open-source software development lies not in replicating code, but in providing attention and maintenance to maintainers. |
• The assumption that open-source projects can be freely altered or improved by anyone is a misconception. |
• Contributors should ask permission before making changes, rather than forking the project and doing it themselves. |
• A scorecard system can provide visibility into a project's value and help contributors gauge their own contributions. |
• The comparison of scores between similar projects can serve as a benchmark for improvement. |
• Maintainers' attention is finite, and prioritizing tasks based on importance is crucial to sustaining open-source projects. |
• Scorecard tool for security visibility and credit |
• Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) community and its benefits |
• Getting involved with OpenSSF: member vs non-member approaches |
• Scorecard usage, implementation, and potential applications |
• Teaching security practices to developers using scorecards |
• Pathways for college students and others to get involved in OpenSSF and open source communities |
• The importance of having good quality templates with repeatable configurations |
• Terraform as a tool for consistent config across all GitHub repos |
• Automation and abstraction in infrastructure and software development |
• Open Ssf Scorecards as a tool to help developers improve their security and best practices |
• Nats vs Kafka conversation, with discussion on the operational pain and overhead of Kafka deployments and how Nats can provide a more granular way of addressing messages. |
• Kafka vs Nats discussion and comparison |
• Costs and operational benefits of Nats architecture |
• Resources available for comparing Nats and Kafka, including white papers and benchmarks |
• Sanadia's managed service offering powered by Nats |
• Origins of technology names, including Linux, Git, and Kubernetes |
• Etymology of various technical terms, including Venn diagrams, Trojan horses, Bluetooth, and algorithms |
• Interesting names of people behind some technical terms, such as John Venn and Harold Bluetooth |
• Explanation of the origins of some software and operating system names, like Debian and Hadoop |
• Discussion of geek culture and personal interests in mythology and obscure facts |
• Software interacting with physical world and IoT |
• Robotics and coding camps for kids |
• Adult space camp idea |
• Upcoming events: Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) in Pasadena, CA, March 14-17 |
• Nerd Olympics at SCALE |
• Meeting attendees and recording a podcast episode at SCALE |
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