Forgetting the Fundamentals of High Availability

If this past week’s Crowdstrike outage taught us anything, it’s that we seem to have forgotten the basics of how to run highly available environments. But what other critical skills are deteriorating? SHOW: 842SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #842 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW SPONSOR:The Crowdstrike outage and market-driven brittlenessNetwork Engineering is a Dying ProfessionVista Equity writes off Pluralsight after $3.5B buyoutSHOW NOTES:WE’RE ALWAYS LOOKING TO THE FUTURESystems are more interconnected and more criticalCompanies under-staff critical operationsDevelopers are the new kingmakers, but where are all the kings?PEOPLE DON’T IGNORE STABLE FOUNDATIONS, THEY FORGET ABOUT THEMNot enough people have home labs, or go after certificationsThe industry highlights the content creators, instead of the builders/fixersThere might be an opportunity to restart a focus on foundational skillsFEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod