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		baz00 on Sept 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft blames outage on small staff, automation... So the root cause is incompetence. They didn't have enough people and they didn't have a fully tested recovery plan, relying on assumptions and winging it.

badcppdev on Sept 5, 2023 [–]

Important to note that the root cause is incompetence at the upper management level.

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