[zoeysmithe]

Just a guess but this looks like politically powerful dev culture overwriting cybersecurity culture, demanding, thus getting an exception from management for 'productivity' and 'being agile.'

I dont think we appreciate how much of a wild west things are with the incredible mix of hugely complex and powerful tools available trivially to developers and the concept of "move fast, break things."

Especially as corporate sees devs like they see salesmen (big moneymakers who deserve perks, exceptions) and top-down security culture as a cost center.

The other buried ledes are that postgres allows emojis (not sure if that's intended but it works) and that you can just run system commands and scripts directly from postgres cli. I imagine a lot of eyes are going to be on new hardening guidelines for postgres now.

I also imagine the first high performance enterprise friendly drop-in db written in something like rust is going to one day be a big deal.

[Terr_]

Hey now, a large portion of developers are seen as cost-centers too! Not everybody has the skill of flattering managers into approving greenfield projects, and then transferring away before they break horribly. :p

[randmeerkat]

> Especially as corporate sees devs like they see salesmen…

You’re onto something here. People perceive the world through the lens of their education and environment. Sales, legal, finance, are all easy constructs for a business leader to view the rest of the world through. The secret of the game isn’t to have the best tech or to code the most, it’s to “outsell” your competing business unit.