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Why Cutting Costs is Expensive: How $9/Hour Software Engineers Cost Boeing Billions.

This is a quite famous story about Boeings 737-Max falling down because of a software bug.

A friend of mine was closely following this story from even before the tragedies. Since it all started with Airbus blowing Boeing out of the water.

Anyway, let this article be a reminder to you that software engineering is not just for cat videos these days.
Medium Why Cutting Costs is Expensive: How $9/Hour Software Engineers Cost Boeing Billions On October 29, 2018 Lion Air Flight 610, a 737 MAX 8 flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Pangkal Pinang, Indonesia, crashed into the sea 13…
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