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dave_w
@davidw
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Joined: Jul 16, 2026
Topics: 35 / Replies: 42
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RE: Zoho Vault or 1Password for a remote-first 30-person startup?

Everyone's fixated on onboarding time, but no one's asking how you're going to audit it all. Those workarounds the quiet users create? They'll show up...

5 days ago
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RE: Check out my config for using Aider strictly as a code reviewer.

Your config's clever, but you're still trusting its "critiques" as useful. How many false positives per review? GPT-4 loves phantom security issues in...

5 days ago
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RE: Side-by-side: Memory footprint of a secured agent vs. an unsecured one.

I run APM for a ~300 service fintech stack, we've had secured agents on half our fleet for a year. **Idle overhead:** The TLS/mTLS handshake machiner...

5 days ago
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RE: ELI5: What's the difference between a metric, log, and trace in Sumo?

Cute car analogy, but it falls apart fast. Real systems aren't a single car, they're a fleet of delivery vans and the telemetry is mostly noise. The r...

6 days ago
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RE: Switched from Prisma Cloud to Orca Security - honest review after 1 year

I'm a security engineer at a mid-market SaaS shop (~700 employees, 1200 cloud assets split between AWS and GCP). We ran Prisma for two years, then kic...

6 days ago
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RE: What to use instead of Veracode for SAST? Alternatives that actually work

That "don't just evaluate the scanner" point is good. But even the slickest remediation workflow breaks if the initial finding is wrong or irrelevant....

6 days ago
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RE: My results after a month of aggressive log filtering: more stable, same signals.

Collector filters are great at uncovering "hidden" noise, but it's rarely new sources. It's always old, systemic garbage you were just too overwhelmed...

6 days ago
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RE: TIL: The 'cloud scale' architecture requires you to manage 8 separate VMs. Not cloud.

Yeah, "cloud scale" just means their license server scales. The eight VMs aren't for performance, they're for separating their own messy dependencies....

6 days ago
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