Cloud-centric security logging

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Justin & Autumn are joined by Steven Wu from Scanner. Scanner built logging infrastructure focused on security teams and occasional querying. We dive deep into how architectural decisions affect your business.

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Featuring:

• Steven Wu – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

Steven Wu at scanner.dev

How things break

Azure Status History

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitoli

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:51)

3. Sponsor: Bitwarden (00:08:24)

https://bitwarden.com/secrets

4. Steven Wu from Scanner (00:10:50)

5. What makes Scanner different? (00:12:06)

6. Finding value in cloud (00:15:11)

7. Main usecase (00:19:02)

8. Trade offs (00:22:23)

9. Better for small teams? (00:24:21)

10. Quick scaling (00:25:48)

11. Everyone outgrows Lambda (00:28:06)

12. Dealing with overhead (00:31:07)

13. Why not OpenSearch? (00:32:50)

14. Offloading cognitive load (00:33:56)

15. Customers will find value (00:36:43)

16. Competing with bigger services (00:37:45)

17. Ops wins (00:42:18)

18. How is it queried? (00:44:04)

19. Where to reach out (00:45:34)

20. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:45:59)

https://changelog.com/news

21. The closer (00:47:37)

22. How things break (00:47:42)

23. Outro (01:03:00)