Comment on Global IT outage: Airlines, businesses affected by CrowdStrike, Microsoft issues
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 months agoIt’s what happens when you put too many eggs in one basket. You see a similar house of cards when you look at package managers in the software dev space. Single point of failure.
The reality though is that Windows computers not running the CrowdStrike agent were not affected. This one falls on CS, but there is a much larger problem at play. Also, auto-updates are a plague, especially on a kernel level. That’s just insanity.
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Yeah the issue is that so many companies were at the intersection of two monopolies – either one failing has catastrophic effects, and there’s no backup plan.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 months ago
A backup plan probably involves using some other company/service that can suffer the same fate 😭
IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 4 months ago
I mean any technology solution can suffer the same fate, but you would hope that it wouldnt be an issue at the same time.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 4 months ago
The real solution is to not make anything that’s mission-critical reliant on Windows.