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@Sir_Fromgar @RoboftheVolcano @SirSpencer our you clicked through to here, they’re mostly embarrassing, and called a glitch to save face. A guy rebooted the wrong server so the outage was caused because he was thinking server1 and was told to reboot server2. Or the firewall guy was supposed to block port 443 but he typed 433. A coder has two variables - results and result (shame on him), and he was supposed to add one to results, but he added it to result.

It can be far more complex, too.

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What is a “glitch” - from a Dude named Ben.

A glitch can be any number of things. The definition varies amongst professions within IT. A coder might call it a bug in code from a typo, or lack of testing. A system admin will call it a wrong action or bad configuration. A network engineer might call it transposing numbers or having the wrong order in a block list.

What they mostly roll up to is a human error. It may be embarrassing or too techy for management.

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