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What all their scandals didn’t convince you of that? After all their logo is that of a stage coach aka the wild Wild West(robbers, thieves, etc). They do not hide who they really are.
The stagecoach refers to their origins as an armored car/delivery service.
For everyone complaining about "how could they not have failover" let me ask you this: Would you take a job with Wells Fargo to fix their infrastructure? And if you did take such a job, how long do you think it would take you to get the budget and approvals from all the auditors necessary to fix everything? How much would they have to pay you to take that job, knowing how frustrating it would be to get anything done?…
This gives a good idea of a very real phenomenon that plays a huge but largely hidden role in the failure, success, and form that technology takes at companies. It's not just infrastructure. Quality, innovation, speed, efficiency, etc. To whatever degree you believe the old 10x programmer meme, believe this: Change that constant 10 to any value for many employees at once at a company and the impact is staggering. Goo…
You're the best engineer willing to work in a black box, a niche, in isolation from your peers with constant pushback.
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There is this company that had a grid power issue, batteries kicked in batteries running low, diesel generator show time, diesel generator doesn’t kick in. people scramble to shutdown before the batteries run out. So ITIL stuff happens and time to test it, guess what? diesel again doesn’t kick in (don’t recall the consequences thou)
Please expand ITIL, I don't know what it means.
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Incredible. They had all their mission-critical infrastructure in a single data center. How many billions of dollars do they make per year? And they can't afford even a tiny bit of redundancy? If I were a customer, I'd use this as a sign that this company is not technically competent enough to manage my money.
Okay, so say you switch banks. How do you have ANY idea if your new bank is better or worse? Are you going to ask customer support? They barely know how to access your account let alone the technical layout of their data centers.
For everyone complaining about "how could they not have failover" let me ask you this: Would you take a job with Wells Fargo to fix their infrastructure? And if you did take such a job, how long do you think it would take you to get the budget and approvals from all the auditors necessary to fix everything? How much would they have to pay you to take that job, knowing how frustrating it would be to get anything done?…
> And if you did take such a job, how long do you think it would take you to get the budget and approvals from all the auditors necessary to fix everything? The only people who think auditors are bad are the ones trying to pull something an auditor would catch.