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The Microsoft/CrowdStrike outage shows the danger of monopolization
(www.theguardian.com)
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No... the Crowdstrike debacle primarily shows the dangers of today's corporate culture in software development.
Ship as fast as possible, fix issues later if necessary...
Yup. Push to prod!
This is the Boeing debacle in software land. Kill the engineering and pay the executives. QA? Testing? Strict standards? People? Naaah, more conferences! More logos on F1 cars!
I totally agree. But without knowing a bit more about the specifics, I can't help but think that just maybe... The updating mechanism could have perhaps just rolled back an update if it caused a bsod?
Seems like that infrastructure is really the biggest oversight and people would have been none the wiser.
Also surprised just how many things are running windows. I thought for sure the self checkout registers would have been some embedded Linux system.
I disagree. You are correct that the cause of the fuck up is because of bad development practices. However, if every firm is being reckless with development, but only one out of a myriad of competing firms fucks up because of it, maybe you'd take one airline or hospital network offline or something like that.
It's only because of consolidation and market monopolization of the sector, that an outage at such a global scale was even possible to begin with.
You’re partly right as is the article.
Centralization is dangerous for security, innovation and cost (monopolies, duopolies).