Glossary: expression
145 entries of kind expression, listed alphabetically.
- "is it worth the time?"
- active-active vs. active-passive
- aerial vs. underground plant
- all models are wrong
- Amdahl's law
- assume breach
- attackers only need to be right once
- Atwood's law
- backup vs. snapshot
- belt and suspenders
- big ball of mud
- bit rot
- boil the ocean
- break-glass account
- Brooks's law
- bus factor
- canary in the coal mine
- castle-and-moat
- cattle, not pets
- check layer 1
- Chesterton's fence
- choose boring technology
- Clarke's third law
- code smell
- cold-potato vs. hot-potato routing
- compliance is not security
- Conway's law
- crunchy outside, chewy center
- Cunningham's law
- don't roll your own crypto
- drink the Kool-Aid
- drinking from the firehose
- DRYDon't Repeat Yourself
- east-west / north-south traffic
- encryption is easy, key management is hard
- everything fails, all the time
- fail open vs. fail closed
- Firmware vs software
- free as in beer
- Gall's law
- Godwin's law
- Goodhart's law
- greenfield vs. brownfield
- Greenspun's tenth rule
- grok
- Hanlon's razor
- have you tried turning it off and on again?
- Hofstadter's law
- hope is not a strategy
- hot / warm / cold standby
- hub-and-spoke
- Hyrum's law
- if it hurts, do it more often
- incident vs. service request
- it's always DNS
- Kerckhoffs's principle
- Kernighan's law
- KISSKeep It Simple, Stupid
- L4 vs. L7 load balancing
- leaky abstraction
- Linus's law
- make it work, make it right, make it fast
- Metcalfe's law
- Moore's law
- move fast and break things
- MSS clamping
- Murphy's law
- never touch a running system
- no plan survives contact
- no silver bullet
- not invented hereNot Invented Here
- on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog
- onboarding / offboarding
- opt-in vs. opt-out
- out-of-band management
- Parkinson's law
- Patch Tuesday, Exploit Wednesday
- pcap or it didn't happen
- perfect is the enemy of good
- Poe's law
- Postel's law
- premature optimization
- public vs. private subnet
- rabbit hole
- RAID is not a backup
- read-only Friday
- remote hands
- rough consensus and running code
- Schneier's law
- Schroedinger's backup
- scope creep
- security is a process, not a product
- security theater
- Segal's law
- shadow ITShadow IT
- shift-left
- single pane of glass
- single source of truth
- slow is smooth, smooth is fast
- spaghetti code
- standard user vs. admin
- Sturgeon's law
- technical debt
- testing in production
- the 3-2-1 backup rule
- the cobra effect
- the demo gods
- the fallacies of distributed computing
- the golden hammer
- the happy path
- the map is not the territory
- the Net routes around damage
- the ninety-ninety rule
- the north star metric
- the only secure computer is powered off
- the Peter principle
- the principle of least astonishment
- the S in IoT stands for security
- the second-system effect
- the street finds its own uses for things
- the Swiss cheese model
- the two hard things
- the two-pizza team
- the wall of confusion
- the weakest link
- the XY problem
- the zero-one-infinity rule
- there are no solutions, only trade-offs
- truck roll
- trust, but verify
- turtles all the way down
- two is one, one is none
- underlay / overlay
- upstream / downstream
- walled garden
- warm boot / cold boot
- Wheeler's aphorism
- wire speed
- Wirth's law
- works on my machine
- worse is better
- YAGNIYou Aren't Gonna Need It
- you build it, you run it
- you can't secure what you can't see
- Zawinski's law