Maybe they do perform canary deployments and Australia was the canary? Certainly feels like it's disproportionately affecting us down under.
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#182At least the central flight booking system is up I guess. Google brought it years ago and it's a mainframe.
Hence why google flights is so tapped in :)
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#183i've seen photos of the bsod from an affected machine, the error code is `PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA`. here's some helpful takeaways from this incident: 1) mistakes in kernel-level drivers can and will crash the entire os 2) do not write kernel-level drivers 3) do not write kernel-level drivers 4) do not write kernel-level drivers 5) if you really need a kernel-level driver, do not write it in a memory unsafe langua…
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#188Like run stuff on Linux, windows and freebsd servers, so that you have OS redundancy should an issue affect one in particular (kernel or app).
Just like you want more than a single server handling your traffic, you’d want 2 different base for those servers to avoid impacting them both with an update.
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#190According to Reddit It's hitting Croatia, Philippines, US, Germany, Mexico, India, Japan. SAP servers dropping like flies, that's Defence,Banks, Payroll all affected. Major Retail Chains like Big W down.