Security & Threat Intelligence · 25.07.2026, 15:29 UTC
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| Veröffentlicht | 25.07.2026 UTC |
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TL;DR: A year ago, my company handed me a project bigger than anything I’d worked on before. The project was OpenGraph, the new extensibility foundation for a cybersecurity tool called BloodHound, and this essay is partly about building it. Mostly it’s about what happens when an engineer leaves the comfortable bounds of individual ownership and starts participating in the conversations that decide what gets built. We’ve shipped the first version – it’ll be a long-running thing. I’m still in the middle of what it taught me. I couldn’t explain any of it on a hike last weekend, so I sat down and tried here instead. Maybe some of it will sound familiar.
I. Introduction
April 2026
I was on a hike last weekend, trying to do the thing that you’re supposed to do on hikes in Northern California, which is to revel in the doing and thinking of nothing all day while the world keeps going. A creek gushed beside the trail as I followed it down through redwood shade. Then, someone in our group asked me the question that follows you everywhere in the Bay Area: what do you do?
I didn’t want to be back at work. I wanted to be back with the creek, which had asked nothing of me. But he was waiting, and I owed him an answer. I searched through my work thoughts for the material I needed, only to struggle when it came time to articulate.
I started saying something about graphs and cybersecurity. He stared at me with the blankness of a man who has received no useful information. I couldn’t help him. I asked if he knew any graph theory. He did not. I tried again: nodes and edges, like the way …