The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Changelog & Friends #54)

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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Featuring:

• Robert Ross – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Inside the 78 minutes that took down millions of Windows machines


• How the CrowdStrike outage unfolded — a timeline


• Nick Burns, Your Company’s Computer Guy


• Real men test in production… The truth about the CrowdStrike disaster


• No More Blue Fridays


• House committee calls on CrowdStrike CEO to testify on global outage


• CrowdStrike CEO called to testify to Congress over cybersecurity’s firm role in global tech outage


• Beyond the Headlines: The Unsung Art of Software Outage Management

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