Data Best Practices

Data Masking 101

I continue to dig up and share this simple approach for production data masking via SQL to create testing data sets. Time to codify it into a post. Rather than generating a set of names and data from tools such as Mockaroo , it is more practical to use actual data for a variety of testing reasons.

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A reliable and dependable application requires observability

Observability (o11y) is a critical pre-requisite component in software architecture when advocating for and preparing organizations for making informed decisions on the success of their application. Open Telemetry from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is the goto standard regardless of your choices of monitoring tools.

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Our Data Security Moonshot Starts With Prevention

The recent re-announcement of the Cancer Moonshot highlighted a common enemy to many endeavors to improve our society as a whole, and that is using common sense and already known methods.

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