The biggest-ever global outage: lessons for software engineers

URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-biggest-ever-global-outage-lessons Type: article Domain: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com

Excerpt: Cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike shipped a routine rule definition change to all customers, and chaos followed as 8.5M machines crashed, worldwide. There are plenty of learnings for developers.

Notes: Linked is a great analysis of what might have gone wrong to cause the crowdstrike global outage of windows computers. Also software engineering and operations techniques and principles which could have avoided the terrible event.