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Ask HN: Anyone working on the Delta outage that can give us technical details?
Delta is experiencing a worldwide systems outage right now: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/08/08/world/europe/ap-eu-delta-outage-.html
I'm curious to find out any details as these kinds of services are so different than the ones I normally work on. I'm also assuming there's lots of redundancy built in, so how does such a widespread outage occur? Anyone else who works on airlines systems I'm also interested to hear from. Thanks!
- PerfectNumber 10y agoMe too. But I realize that "someone" could lose his job by sharing such (or any) details.
- Mz 10y agoI imagine they are also a tad busy. Answering this question would be a little like EMS personnel stopping in the middle of rescuing someone to give an interview to the press. Even if it isn't strictly against the rules per se, letting the patient die so you can mug for the camera isn't the best way to keep your job.
- gesman 10y agoWell, if it's power outage as some news reported - then it's matter of Hydro utilities taking care of stuff and maybe typing the report on improving power supply redundancy. However I think we don't know the whole story.