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...which reminds to us all that SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS, and NOT SysOps, are NUMBER ONE frontline of #cyberdefence and #cybersecurity

No matter how sweet and clever practices your keysmaster has who creates VPNs and assigns roles and policies, it's SOFTWARE ENGINEER who keeps your data SAFE. Not the guy who introduces layers of inconvenience between layers of algorithmic abstractions.

Do not focus on passwords, Mulesoft, and other crappy vendors of "declarative configurations," but let your SOFTWARE ENGINEERS do systems design in a proper, secure, way.

Configuration overhead leaves no time for high quality software design and code practices.

Bureaucracy in software kills security. Let all ENGINEERS do ENGINEERING. Do not ADMINISTER layers between roads, nuts, and bridges, let engineers and architects do their cohesive job quickly, effectively, with low overhead.