Troy Hunt talks with Dave Rael about the pet projects, success, lifestyle design, and the joys and pains of the ease of creating in the digital world
Troy Hunt is a security expert and a course author at Pluralsight. Beyond his work with Pluralsight, Troy is Microsoft MVP for developer security and ASPInsider who's been building software for browsers since the early days of the web.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Troy Hunt
- - Troy the television star
- - Troy's project: haveibeenpwned.com and the attention it has gotten from high-profile breaches
- - The gravity of the breach of Ashley Madison
- - The origin, implementation, and growth of the have i been pwned project
- - How Microsoft Azure handled the scale of the haveibeenpwned.com traffic around the Ashley Madison breach - the economics of autoscaling in the cloud
- - Troy's definition of value and emphasis on the long term play
- - How Troy got started in software
- - Troy's story of failure - dealing with questionable characters and not understanding the nature of the business and agreement
- - The amazing opportunities to do awesome things in today's world
- - Troy's story of success - creating training for Pluralsight and the lifestyle it has enabled
- - The costs of success
- - The things that "light Troy up"
- - How Troy stays current with what he needs to know
- - Financial lessons for software people
- - Troy's book recommendations
- - The things about which Troy is most excited
- - The greatest sources of pain in Troy's life and work
- - Troy's prediction for the future of software
- - Troy's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Troy
Resources:
- Troy's Blog Site
- ';--have i been pwned?
- Troy's Pluralsight Author Page
- Ashley Madison Breach
- Adobe Breach
- VTech Breach
- iKettle
- Tom Preston-Werner's Blog Post About the Origin of GitHub
Troy's book recommendation:
Resources:
- Continue the self-improvement journey
- Create something and put it out there and get people to use it
- Think about your financial future and success