Public marks from user kasi77 with tags load & email Public marks from user kasi77 with tags load & email http://blogmarks.net/user/kasi77/marks/tag/load,email 10 historical software bugs with extreme consequences | Royal Pingdom http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/03/19/10-historical-software-bugs-with-extreme-consequences/ One of the latest software errors that had widely noticed consequences was Google’s Gmail outage in February. The problem in that case was, according to Google, a bug in the software that distributed load between its different data centers. The Gmail outage only resulted in people not having access to their email for a few hours. No one got killed. Nothing exploded. It was an inconvenience, and while it was a significant inconvenience for some of Gmail’s users, it was still just that: an inconvenience. This article is about some of the more dire consequences of software errors through the years. Incidents that make the Gmail outage seem rather trivial. 2009-04-05T19:11:18Z kasi77 software, load, email, gmail, it, bug

10 historical software bugs with extreme consequences | Royal Pingdom

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One of the latest software errors that had widely noticed consequences was Google’s Gmail outage in February. The problem in that case was, according to Google, a bug in the software that distributed load between its different data centers. The Gmail outage only resulted in people not having access to their email for a few hours. No one got killed. Nothing exploded. It was an inconvenience, and while it was a significant inconvenience for some of Gmail’s users, it was still just that: an inconvenience. This article is about some of the more dire consequences of software errors through the years. Incidents that make the Gmail outage seem rather trivial.

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