Exactly this what I was missing in the story. Like why not to have a limited set of users have it before going live for the whole user base at a mission critical product like this is beyond comprehension of everyone ever came across software bugs (so billions of people). And then we already overcame the part of not testing internally well, or at all? Something clusteruck must have happened there which is still better than imagining that this is the normal way the organization operates. Which is a very scary vision. Serious rethinking of trusting this organization is due everywhere!
The funniest part was seeing Mercedes F1 team pit crew staring at BSODs at their workstations[1] while wearing CrowdStrike t-shirts. Some jokes just write themselves. Imagine if they loose the race because of their sponsor.
But hey, at least they actually dogfood the products of their sponsors instead of just taking money to shill random stuff.
