it's basically inevitable with how Southwest operates, they trade resiliency for efficiency. Same reason modern supply chains are so fragile, minimal redundancy

it's basically inevitable with how Southwest operates, they trade resiliency for efficiency. Same reason modern supply chains are so fragile, minimal redundancy anywhere. Tech seems to be one of the last places where people understand the value of resiliency, the way these companies run would be like not keeping database backups to save on storage costs. Or not having any excess capacity provisioned to handle traffic surges or hardware failures