Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown

Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by Spivak on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:20PM (#37470425)

Well yes because you're describing a system where there are really low stakes and crash recovery is always possible because you can just throw away all your local state.

The flip side would be like a database failing to parse some part of its WAL log due to disk corruption and just said, "eh just delete those sections and move on."

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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by madeofpalk on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:41PM (#37470750)

Crash the tab and allow all the others to carry on!

The problem here is that one individual document failed to parse.

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Re:Deep dive into the UK air traffic control meltdown by haimez on Monday September 11, 2023 @06:52PM (#37474778)

The other “tabs” here are other airplanes in flight, depending on being able to land before they run out of fuel. You don’t just ignore one and move on.

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