Sun.Apr 29, 2018

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Do Password Rules Make Us Safer?

Professor Beekums

Passwords play a big role in protecting our data. Either a service provides a way to login with a password, or they provide a way to login with another service like email, Google, or Twitter and those services use passwords. Passwords are unavoidable and important. That means the passwords themselves need to be secure. Many services have password rules to ensure that people create secure passwords.

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USENIX LISA 2018: CFP Now Open

Brendan Gregg

Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18. Post by Brendan Gregg and Rikki Endsley. USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. LISA is a vendor-neutral event known for technical depth and rigor, and continues to attract an audience of seasoned professionals. You'll find sysadmins from Wall Street banks sharing stories with SREs at tech giants, as well as experts from many other industries.

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Organizing for Innovation, Part II

The Agile Manager

Last month we defined autonomy by the classes of decisions that are devolved to the team level, specifically that the smallest organizational unit - a team - has the ability to decide what it should do, can do, and will do. Looking at it this way makes clear the sharp differences between autocratic and autonomous management philosophies. It also helps us to understand that there need to be very special conditions for autonomy to succeed, even on a small scale.