- Machinist: How a million Windows users killed Skype
Windows Update = milions of reboots = trigger of deep bug in Skype’s peer-to-peer system. Fascinating real-world example of the limits of software reliability.
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Yeah, and when the servers go down that track the users, everyone is trying to access them at once so you can’t even go back up because you’re essentially getting DDOS’d legit. While the causes are usually different and unique, the symptoms described are quite common. Not common to one particular app, but overall. It’s not new.
In fact, I’ve never met any programmer (who writes network code) that wasn’t aware of it. The excuse is usually that by the time you do have any chance of this happening, you’ll be in a position to fix and solve it. It’s just too costly to solve at first because the problem can’t really happen at that stage.