Evaluating Patches and Updates

How do you regularly evaluate patches and updates for your infrastructure?

viaSocket follows a structured and proactive patching process to ensure security and reliability in our production environment:

• Library & Dependency Updates: We regularly review and update the libraries and frameworks used in our codebase. Critical security patches are prioritized and deployed promptly.

• Environment Separation: We maintain separate testing and production environments. All patches and updates are first applied to the testing environment, where we perform regression and stability testing before production deployment.

• Containerized Deployments: Our backend services run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Application containers are rebuilt regularly using updated base images and redeployed via CI/CD pipelines.

• CI/CD Rollouts: Deployments use a controlled CI/CD pipeline with support for rolling updates and rollback mechanisms, minimizing risk during patching.

• Cloud Infrastructure: Underlying infrastructure patches are automatically managed by Google Cloud Platform (for compute resources) and Cloudflare (for edge and WAF services), ensuring timely security updates at the OS and network layers.

This combination of automated patching, version control, and safe deployment practices ensures that we consistently address critical vulnerabilities with minimal impact to production operations.