alt Hacker NewsWe can assign fault, or we can ask which levers we can pull to make it better:
1. Can there not just be a light / siren right next to the gas sensors? Easy to fix, but it requires hardware changes on-site.
2. Could Microsoft have not had an outage? Hard to fix.
3. Could they use some better notifications systems like idk self-hosted ntfy.sh with a warning if the server goes down? Yes but nobody wants to pay for that.
A light has to be seen, a siren has be heard. I bet email has a better chance of alarming the right person.
And you have to check those lights and sirens that they still work.
Everybody knew email was down.
The real problem is nobody thought of the consequences regarding the alarm system