Posts authored by Philip McMahon:
Thursday, 4 April 2024
When security matters: working with Qubes OS at the Guardian
Philip McMahonThe latest version of the whistleblowing platform SecureDrop runs on the Qubes operating system. At the Guardian we used the Salt management engine to set up a Qubes environment where journalists could safely interrogate sensitive documents.
Wednesday, 16 August 2023
Aurora Serverless – a migration story
Philip McMahonOn our team we swapped databases 6 times in a year. We’ve landed on Aurora Serverless V2 – was it worth it?
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
What we learned at the International Journalism Festival
Sabina Bejasa-Dimmock, Sam Cutler, Samantha Gottlieb, Philip McMahon, Mario Savarese, Joseph SmithIn April, the Guardian’s Investigations and Reporting team were lucky enough to attend the International Journalism Festival in Perugia. Here’s some stuff that we learned.
Friday, 30 November 2018
Bye bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
Philip McMahon, Maria-Livia Chiorean, Susie Coleman, Akash AskoolumIn April the Guardian switched off the Mongo DB cluster used to store our content after completing a migration to PostgreSQL on Amazon RDS. This post covers why and how
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Ada Lovelace Day 2016
Philip McMahon, Iona McKendrickOn 11 October we celebrated Ada Lovelace day with a day of workshops and inspiring talks, attended by 50 school students from years 9 through to sixth form
Wednesday, 1 June 2016
The web we want hack day
Amy Hughes, Philip McMahonFor our next hack day we are using the Guardian’s commenting platform to share and collaborate on ideas. Please contribute, reply and recommend to help create the web we want.
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Five months in software development at the Guardian - what we’ve learned
Alessandro Ludovici, Josh Holder, Philip McMahonThree of the Guardian’s graduates reflect on what they have learnt so far
