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Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by jcims on Monday October 11, 2021 @12:45AM (#28824749)
What do you mean by 'useful' here? Facebook goes down for half a day and everybody laughs. Take 'banks' down for the same amount of time and see what happens.
Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by stickfigure on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:15AM (#28824924)
It's pretty standard for banks to "go down" outside the hours of 9am-5pm. Nearly everything meaningful that a bank does is processed in batch, often with days-long delays.

Operationally, Facebook is a vastly harder problem.

Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by jimmydorry on Monday October 11, 2021 @01:32AM (#28825035)
Multi-hour outages are already relatively common and getting more frequent by the year for banks. About 10 days ago there was a massive Bank of America outage.
Re:Southwest operational meltdown as hundreds of flights can... by coliveira on Monday October 11, 2021 @11:20AM (#28829334)
You certainly don't use banks often, because their systems being offline for several hours is a relative common event.