I'm a software engineer stranded in the IT outage airport chaos. CrowdStrike broke a cardinal rule of software development and I can't believe the fallout.

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Lines at Barcelona-El Prat Airport at the check-in desks amid travel chaos.
Check-in was congested at Barcelona-El Prat Airport.

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Global IT outage shows why you should be wary of turning on auto-updates

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IT professionals say there's one way the CrowdStrike outage could have been avoided.

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Why Apple doesn't suffer outages like this

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Mac users are safe from the global IT outage.

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This time-lapse map shows US air traffic slowing to a near-standstill after the massive IT outage

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IT issues forced major flight cancellations and delays across the US and the world.

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Did you turn it off and on? Microsoft says some users solved the CrowdStrike problem after rebooting up to 15 times.

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A mass IT outage has disrupted Microsoft systems.

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Airline passengers face chaos and uncertainty after massive IT outage

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Crowds are seen building up in an airport lounge at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand.
Crowds build up in Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand after a Microsoft outage impacted businesses globally.

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Chaos Reigns as Global Outage Breaks Everything from Airlines to Emergency Services

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Passengers queue at Gatwick Airport amid a global IT outage on July 19, 2024 in Crawley, United Kingdom.

Why it's taking time for companies to recover from the CrowdStrike IT outage

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This will be the largest IT outage in history, bringing Y2K fears to reality, web-security expert says

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A woman walks past a billboard celebrating the coming year, 15 November 1999 in Hong Kong.
In the build-up to 2000, there was panic about the prospect of the Year 2000 problem, or Y2K bug, which people feared would cause mass outages.

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How one IT update gone wrong has sparked chaos around the world

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passengers queue at counters in Hong Kong International Airport amid IT outage
A global IT outage has caused problems at airports and many other organizations.

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