A seismic event in the IT world, everyone is talking about the CrowdStrike update that caused global chaos earlier this month. There are many great articles and blog posts dissecting the event and suggesting ways to avoid a repeat. Rather than join our voice to the chorus and explain how a small change could have avoided the entire palaver, we will approach the topic more broadly. While it is helpful to understand what happened with CrowdStrike, the next major outage will likely arise from a ...