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		openopenopen on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure... Does Microsoft use canary deployments? or was it deployed on everything?

pplante on July 19, 2024 [–]

Sounds like it's more of a problem caused by Crowdstrike. I'm sure azure fell over when millions of servers all freaked out simultaneously.

eecc on July 19, 2024 | | [–]

I guess a canary rollout of the Crowdstrike patch would have contained the impact of this.

jaggederest on July 19, 2024 | | [–]

Good lesson in rollout and heterogenous software stacks.

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