The phrase 'Many engineers hired from outsourcing companies have deep experience in aerospace engineering and safety-critical systems' doesn't make sense in the context of the dot-point. Was it intended to say 'do not have deep experience', perhaps?
The Ariane 5 actually had a flatter trajectory than the Ariane 4, causing the horizontal speed component to be higher than expected by the original Ariane 4 code. A failure that is at least as interesting and vital is that it was agreed on project level not to remove or retest the Ariane 4 code in question and that's how it ended up in Ariane 5. (it's all in the original Ariane 5 failure report)
Good article! You should follow-up with a similar article on Knight Capital Group and how a feature flag ended the company.
Waiting for next article on crowdstrike ☺️
Had this article waited a day or so before being released, it could have added the Crowdstrike example.
This needs to be updated with the CrowdStrike outage 😂
Send this article to crowdstrike ;)
The phrase 'Many engineers hired from outsourcing companies have deep experience in aerospace engineering and safety-critical systems' doesn't make sense in the context of the dot-point. Was it intended to say 'do not have deep experience', perhaps?
Exactly, thanks!
Very interesting! Failure is really in the details 😅
The Ariane 5 actually had a flatter trajectory than the Ariane 4, causing the horizontal speed component to be higher than expected by the original Ariane 4 code. A failure that is at least as interesting and vital is that it was agreed on project level not to remove or retest the Ariane 4 code in question and that's how it ended up in Ariane 5. (it's all in the original Ariane 5 failure report)