I wonder how many governments and companies will take this as a lesson on why brittle systems suck. My guess is most of them won't... It's popular to rely on very large third party services, which makes this type of incident inevitable.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2024
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oh they'll take it as a lesson all right, up until they get the quote to fix it suddenly the downtime becomes non-issue as long as it "doesn't happen again"
I'm not a dev, but don't they have like a/b updates or at least test their updates in a sandbox before releasing them?
It could have been the release process itself that was bugged. The actual update that was supposed to go out was tested and worked, then the upload was corrupted/failed. They need to add tests on the actual released version instead of a local copy.
Could also be that the Windows versions they tested on weren't as problematic as the updated drivers around the time they released.
one would think. apparently the world is their sandbox.
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