CrowdStrike’s Global Outage: A Maturity Stress Test for Incident Response and Postmortem Culture
When blue screens start showing up on airport kiosks and hospital desktops, you learn a lot about your incident playbook—fast. On July 19, a routine content update to CrowdStrike’s Falcon...
PCI DSS v4.x Future‑Dated Requirements Are Now In Force: Turn Compliance Into Policy‑as‑Code
If your organization touches card data, 2025 isn’t “next year’s” problem anymore. On March 31, 2025, the bulk of PCI DSS v4.x’s future‑dated controls moved from “best practice” to “required.”...
America’s Chip Boom Has a Technician Problem — and Earn‑and‑Learn Training Is the Fastest Fix
If you’ve glanced at tech headlines lately, you’ve seen a familiar refrain: the U.S. is building fabs at record pace, but we don’t have enough people to run them. Arizona...
Unifying DevOps and MLOps: CI Quality Gates and Live Monitoring for GenAI
Shipping AI features safely now demands one pipeline that treats models like code: tested on every pull request, deployed with progressive delivery, and monitored in production with the same rigor...
Carbon‑Aware CI/CD: Turning Real‑Time Grid Emissions Into Greener Deploys
Sustainability in DevOps isn’t just about reporting anymore. Over the past few cycles, the building blocks for practical, day‑to‑day emissions reduction have matured: we have an ISO standard to measure...
Stop Chasing Nines: Make User Experience Your Reliability Metric
When your favorite song skips, you don’t care that your stereo’s “uptime” is 99.99%. You care that the music doesn’t feel right. Software reliability is exactly the same: what matters...
Kubernetes 1.34 in Practice: Five Changes You Can Adopt Now
Kubernetes 1.34 landed on August 27, 2025, and the first patch (1.34.1) followed on September 9. The release includes 58 enhancements, with 23 graduating to stable—plenty of practical wins for...
What the CrowdStrike “Channel File 291” Outage Teaches Us About Incident Response Maturity
When an update to security software bricks millions of Windows machines in minutes, incident response maturity gets tested in public. That’s what happened on July 19, when a CrowdStrike content...