The HackerNoon Newsletter: The Road to Hell is Paved with Good DRY Intentions (10/31/2025)

Written by hackernoonnewsletter | Published 2025/10/31
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The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Martin Luther's 95 Theses in 1517, Violet Palmer Becomes First Woman To Officiate an NBA Game in 1997, Houdini Dies in 1926, and we present you with these top quality stories. From The Road to Hell is Paved with Good DRY Intentions to Workload Identity: What History Teaches Us About the Future of Machine Identity, let’s dive right in.

The Road to Hell is Paved with Good DRY Intentions


By @melvin-manni [ 5 Min read ] Learn how good intentions can lead to spaghetti dry code, over abstraction and over engineered systems. Read More.

Workload Identity: What History Teaches Us About the Future of Machine Identity


By @salkimmich [ 15 Min read ] The evolution of workload identity: Kerberos to X.509 to SPIFFE to TWI. Why credentials should expire faster than your containers run. Read More.


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