Unforgiving consumers says poor software is as bad as contaminated food

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A new survey from software delivery platform Harness finds that 66 percent of UK consumers think software companies releasing 'bad' code that causes mass outages is on par with, or worse than, supermarkets selling contaminated products that break laws on food safety.

The study of 2,000 UK consumers, conducted by Opinium Research, finds that 44 percent have been affected by an IT outage.26 percent were impacted by the recent incident caused by a software update from CrowdStrike in July 2024.

For example, simple steps like canary deployments could have drastically reduced the impact of the problems CrowdStrike encountered, by ensuring the update only went to a few devices to begin with.

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Author / Journalist: Ian Barker

Category: Technology

Markets: United States

Topics: UK Software Article Crowdstrike Code

Source Website Secure: Yes (HTTPS)

News Sentiment: Negative

Fact Checked: Legitimate

Article Type: News Report

Published On: 2024-09-25 @ 14:11:14 (2 days ago)

News Timezone: GMT +8:00

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Language: English

Article Length: 495 words

Reading Time: 3 minutes read

Sentences: 15 lines

Sentence Length: 33 words per sentence (average)

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