Mitchell Hasimoto, co-founder and co-CTO, HashiCorp
Mitchell Hasimoto, co-founder and co-CTO, HashiCorp

Speed is an extremely important component of modern application development, but sometimes when you’re running fast to get out the front door you leave your keys dangling in the lock.

Mitchell Hashimoto of HashiCorp thinks companies need to do a better job of getting developers, operations folks, and security people on the same page if they want to prevent deployment bottlenecks and crippling security issues. He’s planning to give a talk next week at our first-ever Cloud Tech Summit on how companies can move fast without breaking things when it comes to software development.

“When devops was being born, the question was, how do we empower developers to deploy faster by helping with infrastructure concerns?” Hasimoto said. At a lot of companies, security is treated as a secondary task behind making the marriage of dev and ops work, and that mindset has to change for the cloud era.

HashiCorp makes several products for helping companies manage and secure their cloud environments, and Hashimoto is something of a kid wonder in the enterprise tech world. Just a year after graduating from the University of Washington’s computer science program, Hashimoto founded HashiCorp with Armon Dadgar in 2011 and the company now has raised $34 million in funding.

Achieving true harmony between development, operations, and security isn’t a technical challenge; it’s an organizational challenge, Hashimoto said. He remembered working with a company that would deploy software once a day only to watch that software sit in security reviews for months — yes, months — because the security team hadn’t been involved earlier in the process.

“The way they solved it was by teaching ops and dev people to do a lot of really basic (security) things while building guardrails in, a trust-but-verify system,” he said. “They (the security people) weren’t reviewing every single release, but they were part of the team.”

Hashimoto will expand on this topic in much more detail during the devops technical track at the Cloud Tech Summit, which will be held next Wednesday, June 7th, in Bellevue. There are still a few tickets available but they probably won’t last, so register here and make sure to join us and speakers like new Docker CEO Steve Singh, Microsoft Azure head Scott Guthrie, Cloud Foundry Foundation director Abby Kearns, and many more.

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