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Oh, that'll be why Scan & Go was down yesterday evening. I thought it was another instance of an iOS 26 update breaking their crappy code.
[0] https://corporate.asda.com/newsroom/2025/22/09/asda-announce...
It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place. Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time befor…
Could you provide a reference about the train disruption? I tried but couldn't find anything in English.
https://nltimes.nl/2025/10/29/ns-hit-microsoft-cloud-outage-...
It should be noted that the article isn't complete: while the travel planner and ticket machines were the first to fail, trains were cancelled soon after; it took a few hours before everything restarted.
Based on what the conductors said, I would speculate that the train drivers digital schedule was not operative, so they didn't know where to go next.
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You'd think that Starbucks execs would be held accountable for the fragile system they have put in place. But they won't be.
Why? Starbucks is not providing a critical service. Spending less money and resources and just accepting the risk that occasionally you won't be able to sell coffee for a few hours is a completely valid decision from both management and engineering pov.
I've seen it multiple times at various stores; only once did I see them taking cash and writing things down (probably to enter into the system later when it came back up).
It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place. Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time befor…
can't believe it's 2025 and some still need to go to some place to vote. I can vote since I can remember(at least 20 years) by mail for anything, we also vote multiple times a year(4-6 times), we just get 1 Month before the things to vote by mail and then mail in back votes. Hope we can soon vote online to get rid of the paper overhead.
It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place. Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time befor…
You are not getting more 9’s rolling your own
Old trains had paper tickets, the locomotive was its own power source, the conductor had a flashlight, and the conductor could sell tickets for cash.
And if everything else failed, the conductor would just let you ride for free.
Now everything's so interconnected that any one part failing brings everything to a halt.
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They should rename to Success Customer Account Manager.
>> They should rename to Success Customer Account Manager. No -- the one referencing crime should NEVER have be turned into an acronym. Crimes should not be described in euphemistic terms (which is exactly what the acronym is)
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In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.
If you call that defending microsoft, I'd hate to see what attacking them looks like :)
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In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.
If you call that defending microsoft, I'd hate to see what attacking them looks like :)
Currently standing in a half closed supermarket because the tills are down and they cant take payments
In Germany many stores still accept cash and some even only accept cash and we are ridiculed for this... Seems like one of the rare instances where this is useful :D
Whereas the smaller, owner-run stores have more leeway; the local tiny grocery "sold" all freezer/refrigerator food for cheap/free during a power failure. The big Walmart closed and threw everything away the next day.
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33 minutes from impact to status page for a complete outage is a joke.
In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.