Comment on CrowdStrike downtime apparently caused by update that replaced a file with 42kb of zeroes
rmuk@feddit.uk 2 months agoI mean, joking aside, isn’t that how parity calculations used to work? “Got more uppy bits than downy bits - that’s a paddlin’” or something.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Assuming they were all calculations, which they won’t have been.
We will probably never know because the company will never actually release a postmortem but I suspect that The final was essentially just treated as unreadable and didn’t actually do anything. Problem was that important bits of code that should have been in there now no longer existed.
You would have thought they’d do some testing before releasing an update wouldn’t you. I’m sure their software developers have a bright future at Boeing ahead of them. Although in fairness to them, this will almost certainly have been a management decision.