Dive into the dark side of software engineering with FlashingPulse’s latest Spotify Podcast episode, “Catastrophic Code: 10 Software Disasters & What They Teach Us.” We unpack the most infamous code failures in history—Therac‑25’s fatal race conditions, the Ariane 5 numeric overflow, the global Y2K scare, Healthcare.gov’s meltdown, Knight Capital’s trading glitch, Toyota’s unintended acceleration, the Mars Climate Orbiter’s costly unit mix‑up, Equifax’s massive breach, Windows Vista’s crippling delays, and more.
🔍 Featuring:
Therac‑25 overdoses & why thorough concurrency testing matters
Ariane 5 Flight 501 launch failure from unchecked integer overflow
Y2K Bug: how two-digit dates nearly froze a generation of systems
Healthcare.gov rollout chaos & lessons in load testing
Knight Capital trading glitch: $440 million lost in 45 minutes
Toyota runaway acceleration & firmware pitfalls
Mars Climate Orbiter $125 million loss from simple unit misalignment
Equifax Data Breach: the high cost of unpatched vulnerabilities
Windows Vista launch delays & the dangers of scope creep
🎯 What You’ll Learn:
Best practices for race‑condition detection, integer safety, and overflow prevention
Designing unified CI/CD pipelines to avoid deployment fiascos
Building robust security patch strategies
Managing technical debt & scope in large‑scale projects
Implementing proactive QA, monitoring, and rollback plans
🚀 Who Should Listen:
Developers, architects, product managers, QA engineers, CTOs, and anyone fascinated by how tiny bugs can trigger global consequences—and how to prevent them.
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