{"id":2235,"date":"2025-10-21T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:00:00","slug":"denis-stetskov-the-great-software-quality-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2025\/10\/21\/denis-stetskov-the-great-software-quality-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Stetskov: The great software quality collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Denis Stetskov \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/techtrenches.substack.com\/p\/the-great-software-quality-collapse\">The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cCrowdStrike&#8217;s July 19, 2024 incident provides the perfect case study in normalized incompetence. \u2026 The root cause? They expected 21 fields but received 20. \u2026&nbsp;This wasn&#8217;t sophisticated. This was Computer Science 101 error handling that nobody implemented. And it passed through their entire deployment pipeline.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThe solution isn&#8217;t complex. It&#8217;s just uncomfortable.<\/p><ul>\n\t<li>Accept that quality matters more than velocity. Ship slower, ship working. The cost of fixing production disasters dwarfs the cost of proper development.<\/li>\n\t<li>Measure actual resource usage, not features shipped. If your app uses 10x more resources than last year for the same functionality, that&#8217;s regression, not progress.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Stetskov \u2013 The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe: \u201cCrowdStrike&#8217;s July 19, 2024 incident provides the perfect case study in normalized incompetence. \u2026 The root cause? They expected 21 fields but received 20. \u2026&nbsp;This wasn&#8217;t sophisticated. This was Computer Science 101 error handling that nobody implemented. And it passed through their entire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog","tag-links"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}