The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Friends)
Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world.
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Show Notes:
--- [Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines] (https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/23/24204196/crowdstrike-windows-bsod-faulty-update-microsoft-responses)
--- [How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded — a timeline] (https://www.eastidahonews.com/2024/07/how-the-crowdstrike-outage-unfolded-a-timeline/)
--- [Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25J3u3P-HHg)
--- [Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9RSeDUdkCA)
--- [No More Blue Fridays] (https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2024-07-22/no-more-blue-fridays.html)
--- [House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage] (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/22/house-committee-calls-crowdstrike-ceo-testify-global-outage/)
--- [CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage] (https://apnews.com/article/crowdstrike-tech-outage-microsoft-windows-falcon-8fe725037ab975e011b2cfad67b17c0f)
--- [Beyond the Headlines: The Unsung Art of Software Outage Management] (https://firehydrant.com/blog/beyond-the-headlines-the-unsung-art-of-software-outage-management/)
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