On July 19, 2024, a CrowdStrike Falcon update caused 8.5 million Windows PCs to crash worldwide, impacting airlines, government agencies, banks, hospitals, and more. In this video, we examine the incident, its causes, and how to prevent future outages.

Main topics covered:
Incident summary: What happened during the update and its immediate global impact.
About CrowdStrike: A brief background on the cybersecurity company and its flagship product, Falcon.
Prevention strategies: Detailed steps to prevent similar incidents

We as a technology industry need to focus on robust engineering practices to build resilient systems and prevent widespread disruptions. By applying DevOps principles and proactive strategies, companies can significantly reduce the likelihood and impact of software defects.

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00:00 Introduction
00:07 Welcome
00:15 What happened?
00:37 Who is CrowdStrike?
01:41 What was the impact?
03:24 Disclaimer
03:41 What can you do to prevent this?
03:57 How to prevent outages by applying DevOps principles.
03:58 Plan your deployment and release
04:17 Code checking, pair programming, smart pointers
06:03 Continuous integration, static analysis tools (Cppcheck, …)
06:49 Test automation, dynamic analysis tools (Valgrind, …)
07:26 Feature Switchers, Blue/Green Deployments, Rollback
09:25 Canary releases, dark launches, A/B testing
12:11 Proactive detection, alerting
12:45 Observability
13:07 DevOps principles
14:21 Summary
15:58 Outro

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https://twitter.com/A_Luckmann/status/1814354722330918913
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/falcon-update-for-windows-hosts-technical-details/
https://downdetector.com/

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