In which the team reminisces about the cool technological holiday gifts of yesteryear...

We are thankful for so many things: our investors, our board, our team members, our families, our health... and great software.

How do you safely and securely distribute secrets to your servers?

We're excited to collaborate with O'Reilly to publish An Introduction to Immutable Infrastructure, which explains why you should give up on managing infrastructure and start programming it instead. Fugue can help!

With the rising popularity of stateless application tiers, a separation of concerns with SOA architectures, and DevOps practices like Continuous Deployment, expect the "virtual mindset" to subside.

If you store customer information in any way - be it enterprise customer data or the emails and passwords of your registered users - you're responsible for safeguarding that information. Your startup is a security startup.

The agent/server model is another example of expanding the vulnerability surface in computing that has already shown itself to be far too large and permeable. The only solutions that will improve security and automation will avoid use of the agent/server model and should have no routable address space between them.

The level of energy and excitement at re:Invent was something none of us had experienced at a software conference before. There are likely many reasons for this, but we primarily attribute it to the fact that AWS has established itself as the undisputed front-runner in cloud with significant momentum among developers and ISVs.