[Outages-discussion] Microsoft Windows Azure crashes

[Jeremy Chadwick]

Root cause: peoples' code not properly handling leap year days.

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/03/azure-leap-year-bug/

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| Jeremy Chadwick                              jdc at parodius.com |
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On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 07:11:06PM -0600, Frank Bulk wrote:
> 	Microsoft has released a statement to CBR: "On February 28th, 2012 
> 	at 5:45 PM PST Microsoft became aware of an issue impacting Windows 
> 	Azure service management in a number of regions. Windows Azure 
> 	engineering teams developed, validated and deployed a fix that 
> 	resolved the issue for the majority of our customers. Some customers
> 
> 	in 3 sub regions - North Central US, South Central and North Europe
> - 
> 	remain affected. Engineering teams are actively working to resolve 
> 	the issue as soon as possible We will update the Service Dashboard, 
> 	hourly until this incident is resolved."
> 	
> http://itservices.cbronline.com/news/microsoft-azure-outage-hits-g-cloud-290
> 212
> 
> A little old, so I post this in discussions.
> 
> Frank
> 
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