CrowdStrike July 2024 outage: Channel File 291 root cause and lessons for our releases
A practitioner's summary of CrowdStrike's official root cause analysis for the July 19, 2024 Windows crashes: a 21-field template read with 20 inputs, an out-of-bounds read in a kernel driver, and fleets stuck in boot loops. What the RCA says, and what we changed in our own releases.