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Haha. The banks ought to know better, but in fact due to software being hard to prove correct, we still get major disasters like the TSB migration failure. It c
by diroussel 5y ago
Haha. The banks ought to know better, but in fact due to software being hard to prove correct, we still get major disasters like the TSB migration failure. It caused real world problems like peoples house purchase deals falling through and money getting lost:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/06/timeline-of-trouble-how-the-tsb-it-meltdown-unfolded https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/06/timeline-of...
The thing, is there is seemingly no appetite to try to prove correctness of even single machines systems. Let alone distributed systems.
I wonder if ever there will be a time where this kind of proof is cheap enough to be acceptable to business.