MS Azure fiasco
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:49 pm
Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem
If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts
https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/12/comment/
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Microsoft’s Azure mishap betrays an industry blind to a big problem
If a tiny typo brings down half of Brazil, perhaps we’re the nuts
This principle, of making your mistakes in a place that mercilessly demonstrates their consequences without them being consequential, is the gold standard in safety nets. In aviation, those places are called flight simulators. In electronics, circuit simulators. In humans, Ibiza.
+1llondel wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2023 5:04 pmI do like the writing style in El Reg:
This principle, of making your mistakes in a place that mercilessly demonstrates their consequences without them being consequential, is the gold standard in safety nets. In aviation, those places are called flight simulators. In electronics, circuit simulators. In humans, Ibiza.
If it was, they'd need to employ real engineers, not imports who bought their degrees and will work for peanuts.Heavens, it's almost like real engineering.