'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

    • elrik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      If an intern can release to prod without extensive testing there are bigger issues.

      Given the scope of the potential impact, if anyone can release to prod and have that deploy to all customers without some form of a canary release strategy, then there are still issues.

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      It’s likely not an intern’s fault. Likely a C suite not authorizing the testing infrastructures requested by the developers and sysops people.