The skill gap is still a thing. Even though big players are making news headlines with ongoing global-scale layoffs – according to the 2023’ Upskilling IT Report almost 1/3 of IT organizations describe the lack of skilled resources as the biggest challenge for the IT leaders. In many cases, the post-pandemic layoffs are the result of excessive hiring during the covid-time.

Remember when you were a child and drew a car with wheels and a body? At most, you added headlights? Imagine today’s drawing. Cars are not run by engines and gears anymore. What lets them onto the road are complex electronics and IT systems. Just to mention live tracking, remote start and stop, remote access, infotainment, temperature control, maintenance scheduling, and autonomous driving capabilities. Cars are now computers on wheels.

We continue our series of DevOps incidents and failures. This time, we stopped our view on GitLab. What incidents made this secure service provider appear in Tech media in 2023? Well, let’s jump at the topic and see what vulnerability flaws and threat incidents GitLab had to deal with to help its users protect their data.