What Did We Learn from the Crowdstrike Disaster?

Jul 26, 2024

Hey there, Open source, Cloud, and DevOps enthusiasts!👋🏽

Been a minute, but it’s great to be back!😃

Meanwhile, summer got pretty heated in the past week with a shocking turn of events that sent ripples through the global tech industry.

What seemed like an apparently harmless routine system upgrade from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike morphed into a full-blown catastrophe that had most devices worldwide crippled by the infamous Blue Screen of Death!

DevOps Insights

The CrowdStrike IT Outage: What we know & lessons learned (so far) by Laurence Cadieux
7 Urgent Lessons From the CrowdStrike Disaster by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
How Platform Engineering Takes on DevOps Challenges by Kenn Hussey
Developer Productivity Metrics Drive Continuous Improvement by Jennifer Riggins
Why self-service is key to your developer experience by Matt Saunders

Open Source Highlight

Open source is neither a community nor a democracy by DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON
The graying open source community needs fresh blood by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
When Open Source turns sour: A brush with mistaken identity by Justin Dorfman
What is Git? Our beginner’s guide to version control by Kedasha Kerr
Contributing to open source docs as a technical writer by Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti

Learning Resources

I came across roadmap.sh, a navigational tool that provides guides and other educational content to help you understand the skills and knowledge you will need to excel at DevOps, SRE or any other Operations Role.

Community Corner

Social Winter of Code: an open-source program that aims to bring students into the world of open-source development and fosters collaboration and learning. It is a three-month-long program designed to encourage developers to contribute to real-world projects, gain hands-on experience, and be part of a global community. Applications are still ongoing.
MLH Fellowship: This is a 12-week internship alternative for aspiring software engineers. As participants, you can earn a stipend, build your portfolio, and learn to collaborate on real open-source projects with peers and engineers in real-time software companies around the world. Applications are ongoing.

Events

KubeCon India CFP (In-person) closes August 25th
KCD Chattogram CFP (virtual) closes July 31st
KCD Accra, Ghana CFP (virtual) closes August 31st

Productivity tool of the week

Coolify: An open-source & self-hostable alternative to Heroku / Netlify / Vercel / etc. It helps you manage your servers, applications, and databases on your own hardware; you only need an SSH connection.

Thank you for stopping by 👋🏽

I hope that the information and insights shared have been helpful. I would love to hear from you if you have any feedback or suggestions for future topics.