Building on Shaky Ground.
This article addresses the CrowdStrike incident which highlighted critical failures in technology systems that impacted various sectors like travel, healthcare, and banking. Much of the article focuses on issues like poor testing and specific bugs as well as the deeper problem that lies in the funda...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 2; pp. 34 - 36 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
Feb2025
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