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"“Speed was the most important thing,” said Jeff Gardner, a senior user experience designer at CrowdStrike who said he was laid off in January 2023 after two years at the company. “Quality control was not really part of our process or our conversation.”

Their 'expert' on engineering process is a senior UX designer? Somehow, I doubt they were very close to the kernel patch deployment process.

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They probably weren’t, but that still speaks to their general culture and is compatible with what we know about their kernel engineering culture (limited testing, no review, no use of common fail safe mechanisms).

A company can have different business units with different culture/mentality.

I bet my ass anyone working in low-level code don't ship the way you do in Cloud.

> I bet my ass anyone working in low-level code don't ship the way you do in Cloud.

Their technical report says otherwise – and we know they didn’t adopt the common cloud practices of doing real testing before shipping or having a progressive deployment.

> is compatible with what we know

In other words, it confirms our biases and we're willing to accept it at face value despite there being only a single anecdotal piece of evidence.

It sounds like you might want to read their technical report. That’s neither anecdotal nor a single point, and it showed a pretty large gap in engineering leadership with numerous areas well behind the state of the art.

That’s why I said it was compatible: both these former employees and their own report showed an emphasis on shipping rapidly but not the willingness to invest serious money in the safeguards needed to do so safely. If you want to construct another theory, feel free to do so.

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