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! Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 477 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 Relevant to your Interests 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 Sponsor SysAid – Next-Gen IT Service Management: Experience the only platform with generative AI embedded in every aspect of IT management, enabling you to deliver exceptional service effortlessly and automagically. Listener Feedback (#asksdt) Foundation Models - IBM watsonx.ai Conferences DevOpsDays Birmingham, Aug 19-21, 2024 SpringOne/VMware Explore US, Aug 26-29, 2024 DevOpsDays Antwerp, Sept 4–5, 2024, 15th anniversary SREday London 2024, Sept 19–20, 2024 Coté speaking, 20% off with the code SRE20DAY SDT News & Community Join our Slack community, post questions in #asksdt Email the show: questions@softwaredefinedtalk.com Free stickers: Email your address to stickers@softwaredefinedtalk.com Follow us on social media: Twitter, Threads, Mastodon, LinkedIn, BlueSky Watch us on: Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok Book offer: Use code SDT for $20 off "Digital WTF" by Coté Sponsor the show Recommendations Brandon: Austin FC Presumed Innocent The Contrarian Matt: Crying Out Cloud podcast Photo Credits Artwork Sponsored By:SysAid: SysAid – Next-Gen IT Service Management. Experience the only platform with generative AI embedded in every aspect of IT management, enabling you to deliver exceptional service effortlessly and automagically.