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[Sam the Centipede]

CrowdStrike is promising to […] implement a staggered deployment to avoid a repeat of this disaster.

That was an omission that baffled me. Why wouldn't you stagger the deployment regardless of how confident you were with your testing?

Let say a hundred or a thousand users or sites install the software and then pause for half a day. If the phones start smoking abort the deployment and get the tiger team breaking down and fixing the problem. If the phones stay silent, be happy and resume deployment.

Costs nothing, can avoid a disaster becoming a catastrophe.

[qbawl]

All you Crowdstrike critics take notice, they are doing the right thing to make amends:
Per Trainwreck @ Thurrott.com;
Can’t make this up, Crowdstrike sending partners an Uber Eats gift card, for a whopping $10

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowd ... or-outage/