ECDE case studies

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The EC-Council Certified DevSecOps Engineer (ECDE) is a vendor certification, exam code 312-97, aimed at people who build or secure automated software delivery pipelines. EC-Council positions it for DevOps engineers, software engineers and testers, application security professionals, IT security professionals, and cyber security engineers or analysts, plus anyone with prior application security knowledge who wants to move into a DevSecOps role. The ECDE case studies are 5 cases and about 5,602 words.

The Insurer That Bought a Toolchain Instead of a Culture

A regional insurer has run a 14-day release train for six years. Development sits on floor 3, operations on floor 5, and work crosses between them only through a ticket queue.

1,049 words, about 5 min 2

Three Security Engineers, Forty Microservices, Eleven Weeks to Launch

A payments platform runs 40 microservices across six product squads. The security group has three engineers, and its main plan-stage control is a 40-page threat model document produced 18 months ago for the original monolith; nobody has opened it since.

1,107 words, about 6 min 3

Going Green and Staying Green Without Slowing Delivery

A B2B SaaS company runs a single Jenkins pipeline for 60 repositories. A full run takes a median of 47 minutes.

1,091 words, about 5 min 4

Daily Releases, a Monolith, and a Change Freeze

An online ticketing company releases once a week, in a Saturday 02:00 change window, using a runbook that occupies a release engineer for about 90 minutes. The core application is a Java monolith backed by PostgreSQL, with three newer services alongside it.

1,158 words, about 6 min 5

Fewer Pages, Faster Recovery, Lower Observability Spend

A streaming media company runs 120 services on Kubernetes and handles about 40,000 requests per second at peak. Its monitoring consists of 640 alert rules accumulated over four years: roughly 200 pages a week, of which the on-call engineers judge 85% to be non-actionable.

1,197 words, about 6 min