Butterfly Effect — when something harmless leads to massive disasters!

Learn about the Butterfly Effect via Tech & Historical examples of issues around this phenomenon.

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The butterfly effect is the idea that small things can have non-linear impacts on a complex system. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a typhoon. — Source: https://fs.blog/the-butterfly-effect/

The famed Butterfly Effect is a harmless or limited change in a system that leads to something catastrophic somewhere else (connected to the initial event).

I was inspired to write about this after Meta’s outage (on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads) yesterday:

Facebook and Instagram outage: Widespread disruption disrupts services | CNN Business

While we are yet to get an official root cause report, it’s believed to be a minor software maintenance work in an unrelated area that led to the outage.

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