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One line of code caused AT&T to lose $60 million (engineercodex.substack.com)

submitted 9 months ago by rglullis@communick.news to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] snowe@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

Knight Capital Group lost $440 million in just 45 minutes due to a repurposed feature flag.

https://www.henricodolfing.com/2019/06/project-failure-case-study-knight-capital.html?m=1

Kinda makes the att one seem tiny in comparison.