How Do You Safely Govern AI-Generated Production Software?
I was asked to review a public portal largely built through AI-assisted "vibe coding" by someone without much web development experience. Even a surface review uncovered serious problems,…
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How Do You Govern AI-Generated Code in Production Systems?
I was asked to review a portal that had been largely built through conversational coding with an LLM by someone without much web development experience. Even a surface-level…
How can you detect secrets embedded in an app’s authentication logic?
Most secret-scanning tools I've used inspect repositories, configuration files, and deployment manifests. We run Vault, which catches many issues, and External Secrets Operator has worked well for syncing…
How can I detect secrets embedded in an application’s authentication logic?
Most of the secret-scanning tools I've tried inspect repositories, configuration files, and deployment manifests. We use Vault and External Secrets Operator successfully for managing and syncing credentials, but…
Should a B2B Web App Rely on Firewall IP Allowlisting or Application Authentication?
We host an asset-performance dashboard on company servers. It collects data from customer equipment and presents the results in charts and dashboards. To keep the service off the…
Should we hire a DevOps engineer, a platform engineer, or a development leader?
We're a midsize company with roughly 1,000 users. Our IT environment is fairly mature: we're heavily virtualized, run a hybrid on-premises and cloud setup, and have a solid…
How should we handle an AI-built internal tool before giving it broader access?
A finance director built a useful internal application with AI assistance and now wants the rest of his team to use it. What process should it go through…
How can I make my career platform demonstrate deeper engineering skills?
I've built a small career platform with a resume builder that supports templates, drag-and-drop editing, live previews, PDF export, and AI-assisted content generation. It also includes an AI…
How can I turn my career platform into a technically impressive portfolio project?
I've built a small career platform and want to make it more than a standard CRUD application connected to an LLM API. It currently includes a resume builder…
Should inbound traffic to Azure Container Apps pass through Azure Firewall if a WAF is already in place?
We use an Azure hub-and-spoke environment with vWAN. Traffic entering or leaving each spoke is routed through the hub and inspected by Azure Firewall Premium, while traffic within…
What database and security setup should I use for my first small workplace web app?
I'm a beginner with HTML and want to build a small application to help a friend complete a task at work. Initially, it would run on just one…
How Can I Reduce the Windows SmartScreen Warning for My Companion App?
I've developed a product called the Mathematical Keyboard, which is a compact keyboard designed to help users type math symbols quickly across various applications, not just in equation…