'Completely unprecedented' outage causes havoc with IT systems across globe — as it happened
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A massive IT systems outage caused by issues with CrowdStrike software affects banks, airports, supermarkets and media companies across Australia and around the world.

All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It’s all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We’ll see if that changes over the weekend…

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Nice. The first comment is basically saying, “they’re best in class, so they’re worth the premium.” And then the general, “you’ll probably do better by doing the opposite of /r/wallstreetbets” wisdom.

    So yeah, if I wanted to gamble, I’d be buying calls for a week or so out when everyone realizes that the recovery was relatively quick and CrowdStrike is still best in class and retained its customers. I think that’s the most likely result here. Switching is expensive for companies like this, and the alternatives aren’t nearly as good.