Corporate America often has major issues that even internally they can't decide where it rates on the scale - and corporate communications is not about to let that information out. Outright outages for major corps or infrastructure is rare, but performance degradation is so constant for some companies that stumbling along in constant fire-fighting mode is considered normal, IE: something like a 4.0 on this scale is every day. A significant portion of my time over the last ten years has been consulting to large enterprises to solve their production problems and try to ensure they don't happen again. It's shocking how broken things can be before a dime will be spent to improve anything.
I get super concerned when I hear reports like this -- what I'd like to hear is that the Netflix chaos monkey method is being adopted for critical infrastructure to increase resilience. Instead I can totally imagine a software fault that brings transit across a city down for a few days. I think we had a software fault in UK air traffic control recently that knocked out flying for about half a day -- who knows how much of this is going on
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Corporate America often has major issues that even internally they can't decide where it rates on the scale - and corporate communications is not about to let that information out. Outright outages for major corps or infrastructure is rare, but performance degradation is so constant for some companies that stumbling along in constant fire-fighting mode is considered normal, IE: something like a 4.0 on this scale is every day. A significant portion of my time over the last ten years has been consulting to large enterprises to solve their production problems and try to ensure they don't happen again. It's shocking how broken things can be before a dime will be spent to improve anything.
I get super concerned when I hear reports like this -- what I'd like to hear is that the Netflix chaos monkey method is being adopted for critical infrastructure to increase resilience. Instead I can totally imagine a software fault that brings transit across a city down for a few days. I think we had a software fault in UK air traffic control recently that knocked out flying for about half a day -- who knows how much of this is going on