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> And then the obvious thing happened: a complete breakdown of all important systems, like a house of cards. And: most vendors were not working due to lockdowns
by SPBS 5y ago
> And then the obvious thing happened: a complete breakdown of all important systems, like a house of cards. And: most vendors were not working due to lockdowns or other important issues during the pandemic.
> The only system not affected by the complete meltdown was: our new one, which was designed to withstand outages from backend systems below.
I don't understand, how can their SPA frontend still be functional when the backend is totally down? You can display things to the user, but you cannot do anything meaningful from it?
- jdlshore 5y agoDepends on what the backend systems were doing. They may have been data feeds that could be cached, with the “front-end” actually being a whole app with its own back end and database. Or perhaps taking orders and queueing them up for later delivery when the back-end systems came back on line.