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London Stock Exchange crippled by system outage
- iamelgringo 18y agoHmmmm.... Maybe we should run the test suite one more time before we deploy.
- michaelneale 18y agoAnd they chose windows over linux for Reliability: http://www.idgconnect.com/software/windows/london_stock_exchange_achieving_record_reliability_using_windows_over_linux/ http://www.idgconnect.com/software/windows/london_stock_exch...
- briansmith 18y agoWindows doesn't take 8 hours to reboot. I'm gonna guess that it was some data corruption or hardware failure that forced a rebuild of some large database node.
- coltafever 18y agoProbably caused by a faulty wind generating turbine.
- mynameishere 18y agoWhen I was in college (not that long ago) I had a COBOL class. I learned exactly one thing from that class: It is astonishingly...astonishingly...easy to fuck up financial apps. If you see a webpage where the margins are off, or the text doesn't align...that's bad. But in a financial app, the equivilent bug amounts to catastrophe.
- ca98am79 18y agothe trading bots did it on purpose - they are taking control of the system
- rms 18y agohttp://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-live/843/Default.aspx http://www.onwindows.com/Articles/LSE-TradElect-system-goes-...
- pgebhard 18y agoFrom the article: "The new platform has been designed to the highest levels of resilience with comprehensive back up, which includes dual processing at two sites and recovery from component failure within a second." Hmm...where was the recovery? Did it mention anywhere why the recovery didn't occur? I'm guessing, though, that the company won't actively explain what failed or why.
- known 18y agoWindows priorities have been 1. Usability 2. Features 3. Performance Unix priorities have been 1. Features 2. Performance 3. Usability