Remembering Heartbleed

Colm MacCirthaigh, who was Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services Elastic Load Balancer five years ago, posted an interesting recollection of his experience the day the Heartbleed bug went public. OpenSSL was in use widely across AWS, and the team there basically dropped everything to hot patch millions of deployments, then over the next hours and days took many other steps to mitigate the damage. It's a fascinating story if you're familiar with information security, or even just minimally familiar with the infrastructure that keeps the internet going.