Hedge 238: What Went Wrong? (Crowdstrike)

The Hedge

The massive failure resulting from a failed update to 8.5 million Windows hosts by Crowdstrike will live in Internet history for years to come. The failure will be studied by engineering teams and college classes to understand what went wrong and how we can stop this from happening in the future. Derick Winkworth (@cloudtoad), Eyvonne Sharp, Tom Ammon, and Russ White hang out at the hedge to talk about what happened and lessons learned from a network engineering perspective.
https://media.blubrry.com/hedge/content.blubrry.com/hedge/hedge-238.mp3
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Crowdstrike released a detailed description of the problematic update here.