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The real root cause was building redundant systems that share a single point of automated failure, creating a massive blast radius. > Thirdly, the software ini
by solidasparagus 7y ago
The real root cause was building redundant systems that share a single point of automated failure, creating a massive blast radius.
> Thirdly, the software initiating maintenance events had a specific bug, allowing it to deschedule multiple independent software clusters at once, crucially even if those clusters were in different physical locations
- fulafel 7y agoThe idea of a single root cause is of course fiction in most failures in complex / redundant systems.