Everyone’s talking about Platform Engineering these days. Even Gartner recently featured it in its Hype Cycle for Software Engineering 2022. But what is Platform Engineering really about? Is it the next stage in the evolution of DevOps? Is it just a fancy rebrand for DevOps or SRE?As a veteran of the PaaS (Platform as a Service) discipline about a decade ago, and a DevOps … [Read more...] about Platform Engineer: DevOps Evolution or a Fancy Rename?
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Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking ‘Vault 7’ Hacking Secrets to Wikileaks
Joshua Schulte, a former programmer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has been found guilty of leaking a trove of classified hacking tools and exploits dubbed Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. The 33-year-old engineer had been charged in June 2018 with unauthorized disclosure of classified information and theft of classified material. Schulte also faces a separate trial on … [Read more...] about Former CIA Engineer Convicted of Leaking ‘Vault 7’ Hacking Secrets to Wikileaks
5 Questions with Jennifer Wong, Engineer Manager
The year 2021 was a big one for Jennifer Wong: It marked the first full year she was in a new role, at a new company, in a new industry. Not only that, it was her first official management role too. After years of working as an engineer, Jenn decided it was time to lean into her potential as a leader and accepted an engineering manager position at CrowdStrike. Q. In your … [Read more...] about 5 Questions with Jennifer Wong, Engineer Manager
5 Questions with Sorabh Lall, Senior Engineer
Cybersecurity is all about anomalies — and perhaps no one can prove that point better than Sorabh Lall. As a senior engineer with a background in cybersecurity, his skills and experience are in hot demand across the industry — so what made him want to come to CrowdStrike? In our latest installment of 5 Questions, we sit down with Sorabh to learn more about his journey into the … [Read more...] about 5 Questions with Sorabh Lall, Senior Engineer
5 Questions with Morgan Maxwell, Cloud Engineer
At CrowdStrike, we sometimes like to say, “There’s data, big data and CrowdStrike data,” by which we mean our engineers work with a volume and scale of data that is totally unmatched in the tech world. Cloud Engineer Morgan Maxwell learned as much firsthand, when she joined four and a half years ago. Since then, she’s come to embrace the volume of data, the scale of our cloud … [Read more...] about 5 Questions with Morgan Maxwell, Cloud Engineer
Apple is Hiring a Payments Software Engineer to Build a 'Next Generation Payment Platform'
Apple is seeking a Payments Software Engineer to help build a 'next generation payment platform', according to a job posting on jobs.apple.com. … [Read more...] about Apple is Hiring a Payments Software Engineer to Build a 'Next Generation Payment Platform'