I saw someone refer to a "DEI Engineer" as the cause of the CrowdStrike outage. Lots of things wrong with that. I'll summarize:

* The assertion's totally made up.
* When catastrophic failures happen in complex systems, there are almost always multiple causes.
* Human error means a system wasn't robust enough to support the humans who work with it.

But most importantly: if you use "DEI engineer" as a pejorative, *fuck you*. Racism is poison to systemic quality much moreso than technical risks.