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Hey, can you please review the site guidelines and stick to them when posting here? We have to ban accounts that won't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes. I expect that the comment above describing jobs in finance as a "waste of life", with no other content is also unacceptable.
I'm not sure how automated deployments would have solved this problem. In fact, if anything, it would have magnified the impact and fallout of the problem. Substitute "a developer forgot to upload the code to one of the servers" for "the deployment agent errored while downloading the new binary/code onto the server and a bug in the agent prevented the error from being surfaced." Now you have the same failure mode, an…
> The blame here lies squarely with the developers--the code was written in a non-backwards-compatible way. The blame completely lies with the risk management team. The market knew there was a terrible problem, Knight knew there was a problem, yet it took 45 minutes of trying various hotfixes before they ceased trading. Either because they didn't have a kill switch, or because no one was empowered to pull the kill sw…