[josephg]

Using phased rollouts of updates has been a thing for well over a decade at this point. Microsoft uses phased rollouts for windows updates. Google does the same for chrome. To say nothing of proper testing and fuzzing.

It’s not a mystery why crowdstrike brought down so many companies and got people killed. Their engineering practices were foreseeable bad and people died as a result. Wah wah software is complicated. So what? That’s why you learn to do it properly before you install your software in hospitals and airports.

Learn to take responsible for the outcome of your work. Software is complex, yes. Keeping that complexity in check is what software engineers are trained for and hired for.