Aug 1, 2024 1 min read links

Link: Delta CEO: ‘When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?’

Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian revealed in a recent CNBC interview that the company experienced a loss of half a billion dollars in just five days due to an outage caused by a CrowdStrike update on July 19. The ensuing chaos led to the cancellation of over 5,000 flights and lingering system errors at airports days after the crash. Bastian pointed to the necessity of handling 40,000 servers and making compensation payments to stranded passengers among the key expenditure incidents. While considering the company's future relationship with Microsoft post-crash, Bastian criticized it as a "fragile platform", highlighting the rarity of significant outages with companies like Apple. He also attributed part of the trouble to tech giant valuations, inflated by AI advancements, urging them to ensure the stability of their current systems while building towards the future. #

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