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		ohyesyodo on Nov 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Azure Outage Just apply same buggy network patch to all DCs at once? They use software networking so causing something like this should be easy. Or mess up network routing for *.blob.core.windows.net which pretty much all of Azure relies on.

icebraining on Nov 19, 2014 [–]

Isn't applying the same patch everywhere at once a major anti-pattern?

ohyesyodo on Nov 20, 2014 | | [–]

Turns out this was exactly what happened - they applied a buggy patch to all data centers at once by mistake.

davis on Nov 19, 2014 | | [–]

Yes.

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