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Last Friday was a tough day for CrowdStrike...... Releasing a new update for their Falcon platform, a software outage crashed over 8.5 Million Windows systems, costing Fortune 500 companies more than $5 billion. Crowdstike took the hit, with its stock price falling from $345.00 to $263.00 in a matter of days. The event will go down in history as one of the major IT incidents of the decade, blocking flights, retail POS, and banking payments across the world. The cost to Enterprises was significant, and Crowdstike's set-up for Release and feature management needs to be questioned. It's fantastic to see our friends & incredible partner, LaunchDarkly, having a mission-critical solution solving this exact problem, with Dan Rogers commenting on the outage: “Software bugs happen, but most of the software experience issues that someone would experience are actually not because of infrastructure issues. They’re because someone rolled out a piece of software that doesn’t work, and those in general are very controllable.” With feature flags, you can control the speed of deployment of new features, and turn a feature off, if things go wrong to prevent the problem from spreading widely". The incident is a painful pill for Crowdstrike to swallow, sending a loud to message to Enterprise Software on the potential risk of not investing in mature feature management systems. Lessons to be learnt, we're sure... Marcus Holm Christy Pasion Devin Williams Laurie Maclachlan Jacob Lee Kyle Asay Dale Swan David M. Boyle Nicole Stanley Polizzi Rachel Martin Christina F. Gigi Neuenfeldt Aaron Woods https://lnkd.in/dqK_u3V6