Anyone Have Problems with the Microsoft IT Outage?
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More likely scenario, based on actual monetary practices:
Money gets created, and the supply grown, to target areas in the economy that need a cash infusion to grow, or at least, not collapse, as well as fund massive infrastructure improvement or maintenance. The money gets spread around, you know, pay checks, spurring economic activity. Then the increased activity gets taxed, pulling money back out of the supply. The money supply varies, depending on the perceived need.
But, I like the idea of gold backed currencies, which are limited in supply and can't be adjusted. Panics and depressions are character building. The Great Depression was lollipops and sunshine.
The popular saying is that governments tax so that they can spend. Actually, governments spend so that they can tax.
Money can be created and money can be printed. Gold patrón avoid money printing.
The underlying cause was facepalm bad. CrowdStrike pushed code running as a kernel level driver that wasn’t WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Lab) tested and certified. Given the scope of the failure it’s hard to imagine what testing they (CrowdStrike) actually did.
“It ran on my machine and I tried it on Steve’s laptop. Ship it!”
WTH?
“It ran on my machine and I tried it on Steve’s laptop. Ship it!”
WTH?
Every software organization has test and production environments. At properly run companies, those are actually two separate environments.
Apparently the software has a staged rollout system which larger organizations can use - any major problems should be trapped at stage one, lesser at stage two before general distribution.
This update bypassed the lot.
Where I used to work the IT department would test each and every OS update before it would deploy it on the network. Maybe if more folks did that then widespread outages like this one would occur less frequently. At any rate, I use a mac, so no issues for me.
How often have we had problem with the internet and how often should we expect to have a problem? Never in the history of mankind has a fool proof system been devised that some fools can't bring down. And the more complex the system is the easier it is for fools to bring it down.
Yep. Dev/test and production should be kept separate to allow for rigorous testing without dire consequences when the inevitable happens. Making your clients part of the test team, so to speak, is bad form.
Eons ago when I worked in the software world at NASA testing and validation would take at least 50% of the project time and budget. I'm curious what CrowdFire did.
The question is, will they learn from this?
If they don't, they're on their way to irrelevancy.
Another approach to answering the thread title's question:
I had no problem with it at all. The outage went very well and was very successful!
I had no problem with it at all. The outage went very well and was very successful!