[Themaintainers] IRS System Failure

Joshua Braun jabraun at journ.umass.edu
Mon Apr 23 11:10:17 EDT 2018


I imagine folks on the list have been following this, but the recent IRS IT crash seems like a lovely case study for Maintainers:

<https://www.npr.org/2018/04/20/604106157/irs-computer-glitch-caused-by-master-file-issue>

<https://www.nextgov.com/it-modernization/2018/04/irs-60-year-old-it-system-failed-tax-day-due-new-hardware/147598/>

Cheers,
Josh

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