From the article –

McDonald’s was hit by a system failure Friday that closed restaurants and disrupted online and app orders around the world, including in the United States, Australia, Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom.

  • @[email protected]
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    48 months ago

    There are many considerations where the fault lines should be. Somethings absolutely need upstream support and cannot just be buffered… for example payment processing.

    Shit happens and we DevOps people do everything we can to minimize it. That’s why your apps might go down for like 2hrs a year.

    • @isles
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      28 months ago

      for example payment processing.

      (I wonder how many even know what this thing is)