Navigating Vacation Disruptions and Major Outages

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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• 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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Nonsense

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• Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop shut

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