The 2014 Bug That Almost Broke Azure

by Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich recounts a 2014 incident where a developer’s code nearly caused a worldwide Azure outage, and explains the safe deployment policy that came out of it as part of a broader discussion on Azure resilience.

Overview

In this short clip, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich describes how a production-impacting bug in 2014 nearly took Azure down globally, and how that incident led to a safer deployment policy designed to reduce the blast radius of changes and prevent similar failures.