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Engineering guides, security best practices, and company updates from the Phase team. Learn how to manage API keys, environment variables, and application secrets.

SecurityDevOps / SRE / infrastructure

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11 from 6 Jul 2023 to 28 Feb 2026
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now and then (3 in the last year)
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2026 2

  1. SOC 2 Type 2 CompliantWe are officially SOC 2 Type 2 compliant — here's what that means for you and your data.Nimish2026.02.28
  2. 2026 Pricing UpdatesWe've simplified our pricing. Service Accounts are now free and only team members are billed.NimishRohan2026.02.01

2025 5

  1. Speedrunning SOC 2 Type 2A guide for any early-stage technical founders to get SOC 2 Type 2 compliance as quickly as possible on a budget.Nimish2025.11.21
  2. Announcing our pre-seed roundWe are happy to announce we have raised a pre-seed round from Balaji Srinivasan.RohanNimish2025.07.28
  3. Instrumenting Next.js with runtime secret injectionLeveraging the instrumentation feature in Next.js 14 to inject secrets into applications at runtime.Rohan2025.07.27
  4. AES & ChaCha — A Case for Simplicity in CryptographyA technical deep dive into how the ChaCha20 cipher is taking on AES as the gold standard for symmetric encryption, and a lesson about the power of simplicity in cryptographic design.Rohan2025.04.14
  5. Managing Secrets in Docker Compose — A Developer's GuideA practical guide to securely managing secrets in Docker Compose for production deploymentsNimish2025.01.08

2024 3

  1. What is Secrets Management?A better understanding of secrets management protects you from security breaches, saves developer time and streamlines deployments.RohanIroro2024.07.05
  2. End to End encrypted secrets deployment to KubernetesSecurely deploying secrets to Kubernetes with PhaseNimish2024.03.26
  3. Updating public Next.js environment variables without rebuildsA practical approach to updating public environment variables without rebuilding your Next.js appRohan2024.01.22

2023 1

  1. Unlocking encryption for developersHow years of trying to build secure, encrypted apps led us to build an open-source key management platform instead.Rohan2023.07.06