Blob Front-End Bug Bursts Microsoft Azure Cloud

Grazed from IEEE. Author: Robert N. Charette.

It being the Thanksgiving holiday week in the United States, I was tempted to write once more about the LA Unified School District’s MiSiS turkey of a project, which the LAUSD Inspector General fully adressed a report [pdf] released last week. If you like your IT turkey burnt to a crisp, over-stuffed with project management arrogance, served with heapings of senior management incompetence, and topped off a ladleful of lumpy gravy of technical ineptitude, you’ll feast mightily on the IG report.

However, if you are a parent of the over 1,000 LAUSD school district students who still have not received a class schedule nearly 40 percent of the way into the academic year—or a Los Angeles taxpayer for that matter—you may get extreme indigestion from reading it. However, the winner of the latest IT Hiccup of the Week award goes to Microsoft for the intermittent outages that hit its Azure cloud platform last Wednesday, disrupting an untold number of customer websites along with Microsoft Office 365, Xbox Live , and other services across the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. The outages occurred over an 11-hour (and in some cases longer) period…

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