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This was what was particularly interesting to me - that they went to the effort of writing a purely technical article on the particulars of how parts of their e
by chronotis 8y ago
This was what was particularly interesting to me - that they went to the effort of writing a purely technical article on the particulars of how parts of their environment operate, and to publish it on their platform even when that's not the sort of content they're known for.
- viraptor 8y agoIt's not their main platform though: > Digital Blog > A blog by the Guardian's internal Digital team. We build the Guardian website, mobile apps, Editorial tools, revenue products, support our infrastructure and manage all things tech around the Guardian
- pdpi 8y agoIsh. From what I can tell, the “Digital Blog” seems to be set up as just another column on the platform.
- vanderZwan 8y agoGiven their employers, one would hope that they get good editorial support though!
- jwdunne 8y agoThis is pretty much how all Guardian articles are formatted. Some of their regular pieces could be called "blog posts" - Felicity Cloake's cooking series comes to mind. Guess it makes sense to reuse the platform that already has the templates than use another platform and reimplement the design.
- wftglf 8y agoHi! Thanks for your comments. I'm one of the authors of this post. It is the same platform at the moment (just not tagged with editorial tags so it stays away from the fronts), though sometimes the team that approves non-editorial posts to the site can be concerned about us writing about outages and things as it might carry a 'reputational risk', so we may end up migrating to a different platform in the future so we can publish more quickly, we'll see!
- AlexCoventry 8y agoDoes SecureDrop run on your AWS infrastructure?
- dmix 8y agoIt’s probably better if they didn’t answer this question...
- AlexCoventry 8y agoIt's a bit disturbing to me that they seem to be using AWS for confidential editorial work. > Due to editorial requirements, we needed to run the database cluster and OpsManager on our own infrastructure in AWS rather than using Mongo’s managed database offering.
- nexuist 8y ago>Since all our other services are running in AWS, the obvious choice was DynamoDB – Amazon’s NoSQL database offering. Unfortunately at the time Dynamo didn’t support encryption at rest. After waiting around nine months for this feature to be added, we ended up giving up and looking for something else, ultimately choosing to use Postgres on AWS RDS.
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- AlexCoventry 8y agoAnyone who gets control of the live server can still read a database, even if it encrypts its storage.
- grogenaut 8y agoEncryption at rest is still important as it closes off a few attack/loss vectors: mis-disposed hard drives, re-allocated hosts. I'm probably missing a few others.