borkage

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noun

A failure or breakdown.

Scrabble 14

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nounborkage (countable and uncountable, plural borkages)

plural borkages

  1. countableuncountablecomputingA failure or breakdown.

    Sadly, 2018 was not done with the devices and further borkages followed later in the year.

    2018 December 25, Richard Speed, “Microsoft's 2018, part 1: Open source, wobbly Windows and everyone's going to the cloud”, in The Register
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    It is just a simple borkage. It be a mean thing. But it could not be stated that the program failure was of extremely high importance, not – it was just a typical accident, and some of them occurs from time to time in the Dream System Centre.

    2018, Albert Alcherbad, The DreamCorp

    Stop yawning at the back, this stuff may not be fancy new iPhones or sweet silicon stuff, but it's good for code-wrangling developers struggling to spot borkages in their work.

    2019 September 19, Roland Moore-Colyer, “GitHub buys Semmle to add flaw-spotting code analysis into its repositories”, in The Inquirer

    The issue follows a string of public cloud outages; a reminder that even the best resourced IaaS companies are not immune to development and infrastructure borkage.

    2019 November 11, Ed Targett, “Google Cloud in Major Global Outage: Numerous Services Fail”, in Computer Business Review

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