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dagmx on July 20, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Lo...

A lot of QA, especially at the system level, is just luck. That’s why it’s so important to dogfood internally imho.

And by internally I don’t just mean the development team, but anyone and everyone at the company who is allowed to have access to early builds.

account42 on July 22, 2024 [–]

There's "something that requires highly specific conditions managed to slip past QA" and then there's "our update brought down literally everyone using the software". This isn't a matter of bad luck.

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