Re:Robinhood goes down again, during another historic tradin...
by manigandham on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @12:34AM
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The context is all lost here. Plenty of other companies and industries have emergency action and disaster recovery. People don't work at their own pace, they work to the deadline with solid procedures. They can fix and replace entire components to restore service ASAP since because that's the priority.
If this sounds unfamiliar or onerous then it's because you and others might have never experienced teams that do this. Robinhood is clearly lacking this experience and disaster planning.
This is the part you don't understand. There is a difference between digging ten one-foot deep holes vs one ten-foot deep hole. People need time to plan how to coordinate and then get on the same page so that everyone can work at their own pace. That is the part that is not parallelizable and is the rate-determining step.