Most SMBs think a standard corporate VPN means they're secure.
They don't realize an unencrypted, malware-ridden personal laptop can just tunnel straight past their firewall.
Next Wednesday (23rd Sept), we're doing a live, zero-BS teardown of a real SMB breach timeline. No product pitch, just a look at what actually stops lateral movement and what fails.
If you're managing remote team security (as a growing company or an MSP) and want to join, reply "Inv" below and I'll DM you the link as soon as it goes live! 🖥️🔒
Learned about Claude Code hooks today. its: when X happens, automatically run Y.
They're not just for after-the-fact stuff like auto-formatting Go code once it's written. They can also run before actions, like guardrails that check a command before it executes.
Anyone using custom hooks? What for?
@4wmturner@blvckitan@FastAPI Yep, for FastAPI's own request spans you can drop opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi. Install fastapi[standard], set OTEL_SERVICE_NAME + OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT and you get traces, metrics & logs. Uvicorn's fine, it hooks in at the app level so any ASGI server works...
You won't learn these by reading. Break them on purpose:
→ Kill a health check
→ Set a 1s upstream timeout
→ Cap a pool at 2 connections
→ Replay the same webhook twice
Then read the logs.
Which one has bitten you? 👇
A lot of "backend bugs" aren't in the code. They're somewhere in the path a request takes.
8 traffic flows every backend engineer should be able to trace: 🧵
8. Laptop → Private server
Trace:
Laptop → VPN/Bastion → Private subnet → Server
Understand:
→ Private subnets
→ Keys, not passwords
→ Firewall rules
→ Port forwarding
If port 22 is open to the internet, you're on every scanner's list.
@RelayAILabs@codewith55 may be correct on support and consistency, but for getting a small project off the ground without AWS-level bills, it does the job.
@ishiitaa_dev twist: choose polyrepo but try to stitch them together with Git submodules. Now you have 47 repos, a detached HEAD state, and a broken dependency graph.����💀💀