How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
Major outage and $465m of trading loss, caused by staggeringly inept software management: 8 years of incremental bitrot, technical debt, and failure to have correct processes to engage an ops team in incident response. Hopefully this will serve as a lesson that software is more than just coding, at least to one industry
(tags: trading programming coding software inept fail bitrot tech-debt ops incident-response)
Basho and Seagate partner to deliver scale-out cloud storage breakthrough
Ha, cool. Skip the OS, write the Riak store natively to the drive. This sounds frankly terrifying ;)
The Seagate Kinetic Open Storage platform eliminates the storage server tier of traditional data center architectures by enabling applications to speak directly to the storage system, thereby reducing expenses associated with the acquisition, deployment, and support of hyperscale storage infrastructures. The platform leverages Seagate’s expertise in hardware and software storage systems integrating an open source API and Ethernet connectivity with Seagate hard drive technology.
Sorry, lobbyists! Europe’s post-Snowden privacy reform gets a major boost
Following months of revelations, and on the same day that France heard its citizens’ phone calls were being reportedly recorded en masse by the Americans, the Parliament’s committee gave a resounding thumbs-up to every single amendment proposed by industrious German Green MEP Jan Phillip Albrecht (pictured above).
lolz.(tags: lobbying tech surveillance privacy eu jan-phillip-albrecht ep spying)