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Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by throw0101c »

Seems like more testing is in order:

> Upon the outage, both banks immediately activated IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans.

> "However," according to Tan, "both banks encountered technical issues which prevented them from fully recovering their affected systems at their respective backup datacenters – DBS due to a network misconfiguration and Citibank due to connectivity issues."

Perhaps regularly flipping between them on a regular basis, at least for a short time, so the 'passive' part of the active-passive pair gets some work, is worth considering.

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by jl6 »

> Question: Anything else besides multicultural tolerance that enabled Singapore's success?

> Answer: Air conditioning. Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.

https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8278085/singapore-lee-kuan-yew...

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by someplaceguy »

thedrbrian wrote: post #2

So that’s like a month of bitcoin transactions?

Two nodes in the Lightning network [1] could right now be performing 5M transactions per day and you'd be none the wiser (unless they'd tell you, that is).

And that's just 2 nodes out of the current 15K-20K.

[1] i.e. Bitcoin second layer.

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by dylan604 »

throw0101c wrote: post #3

Seems like more testing is in order: > Upon the outage, both banks immediately activated IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans. > "However," according to Tan, "both banks encountered technical issues which prevented them from fully recovering their affected systems at their respective backup datacenters – DBS due to a network misconfiguration and Citibank due to connectivity issues." Perhaps regularly fl…

"No recovery plan is worth anything if it is not tested regularly."

"An untested recovery plan is worth less than the paper on which it is printed."

I'm sure there are many other versions of the quote

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by f001 »

throw0101c wrote: post #3

Seems like more testing is in order: > Upon the outage, both banks immediately activated IT disaster recovery and business continuity plans. > "However," according to Tan, "both banks encountered technical issues which prevented them from fully recovering their affected systems at their respective backup datacenters – DBS due to a network misconfiguration and Citibank due to connectivity issues." Perhaps regularly fl…

I’m surprised at this to be honest. At my employer (a bank) we have to do a flip a couple times a year and just continue running from the alternate DC until the next flip. Pain in the butt on the weekends of the flip but at least we know for sure that our DR plan works and is good enough to serve our regular load…

Re: Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5M bank transactions

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Post by CyberDildonics »

someplaceguy wrote: post #5
thedrbrian wrote: post #2

So that’s like a month of bitcoin transactions?

Two nodes in the Lightning network [1] could right now be performing 5M transactions per day and you'd be none the wiser (unless they'd tell you, that is). And that's just 2 nodes out of the current 15K-20K. [1] i.e. Bitcoin second layer.

Except that those transactions don't count until they get on the main chain and no one needs to send 1000 transactions of single penny, then have the exact same problems as everyone else when trying to get that to actually be usable.
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