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The overheating datacenter didn't stop the transactions. It was the technical inability of the banks to fail over which should have been seamless. Outages hap

• jimt1234 3y ago
  IMHO, "fail over" will always fail. Any multi-data-center architecture should actively utilize all data centers, all the time, maybe dedicate more traffic to one or the other. But, if you've got a "passive" data center that you wanna activate during an outage, you're gonna have a bad day. Every time.
  • ms_frizzle 3y ago
    My experience contradicts your hyperbole. Over the past two decades I've been part of several fail overs with active/passive and build from scratch DR solutions. Most succeeded. The ones that didn't succeed on the first attempt did so on the second one. Not a perfect track record, but it does happen with proper documentation, testing, and skilled staff to handle it.