Episode 477: We’re an N-1 Organization
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This chapter explores the humorous challenges of disconnecting from news during a vacation. The speakers share personal strategies and reflections on the difficulty of staying unplugged amidst global events and online outages.
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This week, we discuss the CrowdStrike outage, FinOps data exports, and the state of open-source forks. Plus, Matt shares some exciting exclusive news about his future!
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Runner-up Titles
- Matt Ray Explains
- Channel File 291
- Documenting CYA
- An intern did it
- Default lifestyle strikes again
- All the Nelson GIFs
Rundown
- CrowdStrike
- Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the World
- 12-hour timelapse of airline traffic after what was likely the biggest IT outage in history
- Flights grounded and offices hit as internet users face disruptions
- TODAY (@TODAYshow) on X
- George Kurtz (@George_Kurtz) on X
- CrowdStrike’s Global Outage Doesn’t Have to Be a Recurring Nightmare
- Heard on the Street: CrowdStrike May Get More Than a Slap
- What Happened to Digital Resilience?
- SolarWinds Defeats Part of SEC’s Fraud Case Over Hack
- Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts
- Microsoft tried to get AV vendors to use APIs
- House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage
- Crashes and Competition
- The CrowdStrike Failure Was a Warning
- Defective McAfee update causes worldwide meltdown of XP PCs
- CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed
- CrowdStrike Update: Latest News, Lessons Learned from a Retired Microsoft Engineer
- CrowdStrike offers a $10 apology gift card to say sorry for outage
- Announcing Data Exports for FOCUS 1.0 (Preview) in AWS Billing and Cost Management
- Wiz walks away from $23 billion deal with Google, will pursue IPO
- Import and export Markdown in Google Docs
- Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
- The Post-Valkey World
- A tale of two forks - comparing Valkey/Redis and OpenTofu/Terraform!
- Datadog rumoured to be sniffing round GitLab as tech M&A market heats up
- Google-Backed Software Developer GitLab Eyes Sale, Reuters Says
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- Google Open Sources 27B Parameter Gemma 2 Language Model
- What It Really Takes to Build an AI Datacenter
- State of Developer Experience 2024
- The Return-to-Office Productivity Argument Is Over
- A new path for Privacy Sandbox on the web
- The search for the random numbers that run our lives
- OpenAI is releasing a cheaper, smarter model
- Microsoft unveils a large language model that excels at encoding spreadsheets
- Maestro: Netflix’s Workflow Orchestrator
- IBM shares jump on earnings and revenue beat
- US banks to begin reporting Russian assets for eventual forfeiture under new law
Nonsense
- Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) agreed to buy Tex-Mex chain Chuy's
- Leadership within a costco warehouse
- If The Office took place at a car dealership
- Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut
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