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Docker and Cassandra don't solve basic routing. They solve the fact you have have millions of people hitting you site, and many servers to manage. You didn't h
by UK-AL 10y ago
Docker and Cassandra don't solve basic routing. They solve the fact you have have millions of people hitting you site, and many servers to manage.
You didn't have that problem in the 1970s
- gaius 10y agoCredit card processors and airlines did millions of transactions a day in the 1970s, and they managed it with CICS.
- uberonhn 10y agoIt sounds like you have no idea how credit card transactions were or are processed. They are almost exclusively file and batched once a day, even today. Back in the 1970s it was even worse because there was no real time authorization.
- dang 10y agoThis is helpful information if accurate, but please edit incivility like "It sounds like you have no idea" out of your comments here. The site guidelines ask you to omit this sort of thing, so please post civil and substantive comments only: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
- gaius 10y agoHe or she is correct that the cash settlements were and are batched, but authorizations, reservations etc were online - to the mainframe that's just another transaction. The reason settlements were batched was to save on wire fees.