Managing Your Tech Stack: Why Knowing Where Everything Is Matters, with Akhil Bhaskar

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Akhil Bhaskar discusses the importance of knowing your tech stack and how it can impact crisis management in organizations.

Most organizations don't discover what they have until crisis strikes. Akhil Bhaskar makes the case for software catalogs, scaffolding templates, and the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" that enables teams to move fast without breaking things. When a major security vulnerability hits, how quickly can you answer "How exposed are we?" For most organizations, it's a scramble. For Akhil Bhaskar's team, it took two hours to assess and four hours to fix—even though the Log4j vulnerability affected...

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Host: Jon Scheele

Guest: Akhil Bhaskar

Topics covered

• tech stack management
• software catalogs
• security vulnerabilities
• team efficiency
• crisis management

Keywords

• tech stack
• software catalogs
• security vulnerabilities
• Log4j
• crisis management
• team efficiency

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Log4j

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