folks,i know this is OT but i decided to post here as i’m sure there are a lot of people here that work in IT and know what thay are talking about. The recent MS failure is what i would like your opinion on.
from what I’ve seen, MS declared that a bunch of servers went offline and the load had to be spread on remaining servers. They fail to identify what caused the first bunch of servers encountering issues and they claim it was mot related to a hacker attack (why would they, it would lead to massive panic and distrust). So, then what caused the issue in the first place? Could it have been a piloted denail of service attack?
I’m sure the truth will emerge in coming days but was interested in the more tech savy people’s opinione. In the meantime i rejoyce for not having to depend of third party infrastructure at home, thanks to my little homelab.
A further consideration is that this does once again prove that companies that put all their eggs in one basket, are at yhe mercy of big tech. i experienced this personally at works where comunication by Teams and Outlooks was pretty much halted for hours.
I worked at a place that was running COBOL written in the 1970s that supported thousands of other services across the globe.
it was not redundant. it was not HA. there was just one.
the man who wrote the software died in 1995.
nobody understood what it did, or how to maintain it.
I would say, with the recent layoff from Microslop, your assessment might be more accurate than most think.
I doubt Microslop would pass up the opportunity to blame a hacker group or AI at this point. they look like a bunch of incompetent assholes. since they are being vague about it, and won’t immediately state a root cause, that can only mean it’s incompetence.