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6 articles
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CrowdStrike Post-Mortem
Nine days after the outage, CrowdStrike has published a preliminary review. A test that should have caught the bad update passed because the test itself had a bug, and the content went to every machine at once. What the…
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Speculative Future Where Microsoft Embraces Linux as the Core of Windows
A thought experiment, clearly labeled. Microsoft already ships a Linux kernel inside Windows, runs Azure's networking on Linux and maintains its own Linux distribution. What would it take for the next Windows to run on…
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Understanding the Causes of Widespread Outages: The Cases of CrowdStrike and Microsoft
Written the day it happened. A faulty CrowdStrike update crashed Windows machines worldwide, grounding flights and taking hospitals and banks offline, the morning after a separate Azure outage. It wasn't an attack. Why…
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The Broad Expertise of Linux Engineers
Linux engineering roles tend to span more layers than the equivalent Windows roles. That isn't because Linux people are smarter. It's because of where Linux runs and how open systems are put together. Why the job is so…
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Why Being Platform Agnostic is Crucial for Linux Systems Engineers
The most useful Linux engineers can also find their way around Active Directory, a Mac, a Cisco switch and a mainframe console. Why knowing the other platforms makes you better at Linux, which ones matter most in 2024…
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Microsoft Windows vs Linux: The Future of Desktop Computing
Windows 10 dies in October 2025, Windows 11 won't run on a few hundred million working PCs, and Microsoft spent June walking back a feature that screenshots everything you do. An honest comparison of the two desktops in…