folks,i know this is OT but i decided to post here as i’m sure there are a lot of people here that work in IT and know what thay are talking about. The recent MS failure is what i would like your opinion on.
from what I’ve seen, MS declared that a bunch of servers went offline and the load had to be spread on remaining servers. They fail to identify what caused the first bunch of servers encountering issues and they claim it was mot related to a hacker attack (why would they, it would lead to massive panic and distrust). So, then what caused the issue in the first place? Could it have been a piloted denail of service attack?
I’m sure the truth will emerge in coming days but was interested in the more tech savy people’s opinione. In the meantime i rejoyce for not having to depend of third party infrastructure at home, thanks to my little homelab.
A further consideration is that this does once again prove that companies that put all their eggs in one basket, are at yhe mercy of big tech. i experienced this personally at works where comunication by Teams and Outlooks was pretty much halted for hours.
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The main reason for problems: Bad IT administration that relies way too much on Microsoft.
By 2030 AI is gonna completely replace sysadmins as the cause of outages.
I’m sure the truth will emerge in coming days but was interested in the more tech savy people’s opinione.
Why speculate when you will get it dfrom the horses mouth in a couple days?
But my 2¢ is a bad code being deployed.
Upper management should do things and moves to avoid bad code deploying.
Why should upper manglement have a say in this? They only thing any manglement should say is Yes to a digital twin for a test environment to catch crap like this before it becomes a global outage.
Preventing expensive accidents is a part of survival strategy. Should be interesting topic for any CEO and every level of management. In reality they just hope accidents won’t happen?
I’m sure it all came down to poor upper management decisions which they will try to blame on technology
At the moment, we can only guess. My guess: an update (maybe of a load balancer) went wrong. We will never know for sure.
All I can say for sure, is that nobody knows for sure.
