Frequent database password changes are a best practice, because they reduce the “blast radius” if compromised. However, restarting your applications in order to pick up the latest password can be onerous in a large deployment. This post describes how to use AWSLabs database driver that retrieves the current password from Secrets Manager whenever your application opens a connection to the database.
Another Charioteer rolls their own security camera system. This time in the cloud, with the shiny new AWS CDK.
Keith Gregory talks to Andrew Ganim, one of Chariot’s experienced software consultants, about his recent project: building a data pipeline for a multinational company.
The idea that every company is a tech company has never been truer. In the age of COVID-19, the embrace of and investment in technology and its deployment has increased dramatically. Teams must understand how, why, and where technology will function in the real world.
While the coronavirus’ impact on industries like healthcare and education has been obvious and much discussed, it is also accelerating the digital transformation of a less obvious industry: beauty.
Tracey Welson-Rossman talks to Edwige Robinson, the Vice President of Mobile Engineering Services at Comcast. What advice does Edwige have for businesses interested in bringing their product or service to phones, either via app or responsive website? What should be considered when planning a well-rounded mobile strategy? And once the mobile solution is implemented, how do you use customer data and behavior insights to make better, more informed business decisions?
As a champion for diversity and inclusion, along with being an underrepresented founder herself, Liz Brown talks about how increased accessibility is changing the face of life science and startups.
AWS gives you two ways to store application configuration: Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store. Both can store arbitrary configuration data. Both use IAM (Identity and Access Management) policies to control access. Both can encrypt the data. So which should you pick?
In this video, Tracey Welson-Rossman talks to Don Coleman, CIO of Chariot Solutions. They discuss PropTech – what it is, how it creates conveniences and cost savings for homeowners and real estate managers, and how they see it being applied to new challenges in the future.
Chariot developers Matt Gilbride and David Esterkin are currently working on a product that handles terabyte scales of highly regulated, secure data from clinical trials that must be fully HIPAA compliant. Sometimes this data is so confidential that they can’t even see or access it. So how does HIPAA compliance change the way software developers have to do their job?
