I know it's fun to snipe at #Crowdstrike and #Microsoft right now - and we should continue doing that. They suck.
But spare a moment to think that a system that collapses because a vendor messed up is a badly designed system.
If a public utility stops providing its services because a software product went offline, then that utility is badly designed.
No system that people depend on should be remotely possible to take out this easily and at this scale.