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Re:Robinhood Is Down Again? by mulcahey on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:57AM (#22476259)
> The outage was not caused by a failure to code for the leap year. We had instability in a part of our infrastructure that allows our systems to communicate with each other.

https://twitter.com/askrobinhood/status/1234861941413351434?...

Sounds like Kafka / message bus to me

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Re:Robinhood Is Down Again? by conduit242 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:40PM (#22478971)
Could easily be service discovery too, like Zookeeper
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Re:Robinhood Is Down Again? by yushuf on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:42PM (#22478532)
There Kafka cluster is actually managed by Confluent. I wonder if that has anything to do with the persistent outage
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