Re:London Stock Exchange crippled by system outage
by mynameishere on Monday September 08, 2008 @11:33PM
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When I was in college (not that long ago) I had a COBOL class. I learned exactly one thing from that class: It is astonishingly...astonishingly...easy to fuck up financial apps. If you see a webpage where the margins are off, or the text doesn't align...that's bad. But in a financial app, the equivilent bug amounts to catastrophe.
Re:London Stock Exchange crippled by system outage
by pgebhard on Tuesday September 09, 2008 @05:11PM
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From the article: "The new platform has been designed to the highest levels of resilience with comprehensive back up, which includes dual processing at two sites and recovery from component failure within a second."
Hmm...where was the recovery? Did it mention anywhere why the recovery didn't occur? I'm guessing, though, that the company won't actively explain what failed or why.
Re:London Stock Exchange crippled by system outage
by briansmith on Monday September 08, 2008 @11:34PM
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Windows doesn't take 8 hours to reboot. I'm gonna guess that it was some data corruption or hardware failure that forced a rebuild of some large database node.
Hmm...where was the recovery? Did it mention anywhere why the recovery didn't occur? I'm guessing, though, that the company won't actively explain what failed or why.
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