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Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by Ozzie_osman on Saturday February 18, 2023 @11:22AM (#34848067)
True, but software for domains where people can die is very different than Cloudflare. The scale is much higher in the latter, and it needs to be less "bulletproof".

If you're writing software for giant metal flying cylinder carrying hundreds of people, we can't just brush mistakes off the same way we might with web-based software (and yes, privacy is important, but it's not life or death).

Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by hn_throwaway_99 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @11:28AM (#34848128)
I'm not "brushing mistakes off", at all. The process that led to the bugs needs a full review and root-cause corrective action, especially enhanced testing scenarios. I'm just pointing out that software "being wrong under load" is not some sort of crazy, unusual problem that points to poor software architecture. These bugs can easily be caused by a single line of code that wasn't synchronized correctly.
Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by pas on Saturday February 18, 2023 @09:41PM (#34853688)
... ... that's the problem. why isn't it running isolated?
Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by AdrianB1 on Saturday February 18, 2023 @04:34PM (#34851332)
In most industries that are not IT, testing the IT systems very well is needed, but rarely achieved. In my area (FDA regulated) performance testing is almost never done correctly and (for sure) never completely, but as long as it works and the auditors never look at these details nobody from management is willing to know about it, because fixing it costs money. For many years the people signing off for all the software were intentionally not business people with zero IT knowledge, so they could not be accused of knowingly signing off low quality code. That saved tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in the past 20 years alone.
Re:After Alaska Airlines planes bump runway, a scramble to ‘... by oarsinsync on Sunday February 19, 2023 @02:34AM (#34855369)
> In most industries, testing the IT systems very well is needed, but rarely achieved.

FTFY. IT shops on the whole aren’t any better here.