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And then upgrade your expectations of uptime and error tolerance by a few orders of magnitude.
by sjwright 6y ago
And then upgrade your expectations of uptime and error tolerance by a few orders of magnitude.
- tpmx 6y agoThat hasn't really been the case the past few years, in many places. (Especially the UK.)
- rossng 6y agoBanks have notoriously terrible uptime! See, for example, the wide range of multi-hour to multi-week outages suffered by many UK banks in the last few years. Most of the legacy retail banks regularly take down their online banking for hours at a time to do 'planned maintenance'. I've also heard that this happens to things like payment gateway APIs that aren't directly visible to consumers. Sometimes a Faster Payment might take a suspiciously long time and that's because the API fell over or was down for maintenance. At least the data integrity is pretty good.
- sjwright 6y agoDidn’t realise the UK was so terrible. Banks here in Australia have many flaws but downtime is quite rare.