Some of the details here differ from other accounts (e.g. bad driver update versus bad definition update that triggered the existing driver), but I'd say they got the broad strokes right.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/

"What we're seeing today isn't just a major fuckup, but the first of what will be many systematic failures — some small, some potentially larger — that are the natural byproduct of the growth-at-all-costs ecosystem where any attempt to save money by outsourcing major systems is one that simply must be taken to please the shareholder."

via https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112817353944387810

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