Therac is the first one I list and Knight Capital is the second. It is in fact possible to bankrupt your company by misusing feature toggles.
replyI learned about Therac at college in the 90s.
replySome years later, I interviewed at Knight Capital, just a couple of weeks before their blowup. (Dreadful interview at which I did dreadfully, being asked to write C _over the phone_ by a supremely uninterested engineer. Quite a red flag in retrospect.)
I feel like you should get yourself a merit badge printed for that, sewed onto your laptop bag.
replySounds like my Amazon interview.
reply> Quite a red flag in retrospect.
replyNo pun intended?
> Therac-25 is a great case study for software engineers too, recommend reading the Wikipedia article for anyone who hasn't, it's not too long.
replyI re-read the original paper every few months, more frequently if I'm working on Safety-of-Life-Critical equipment. Which, given my day job, means I'm re-reading it every couple of weeks at most.
Keeps you sharp, doesn't it?