Last night, two major IT disasters struck:
Microsoft Azure’s Central region went down for about 4 hours. The official post-mortem isn’t out yet, but rumor has it that while decommissioning legacy storage services, the product group deleted the wrong thing. Crowdstrike pushed a bad update, leading to blue screens of death on Windows systems worldwide, affecting banking, healthcare, airlines, and more.
If you were affected by one of those outages, you have my warmest virtual hug. At times like this, the stress level can be really tough, and I hope you can take care of yourself. Remember that