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All Outages Like British Air are ALWAYS Human Error!

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

It can’t be programmed and it can’t be learned from a book. Humans conflate Availability with Contingency Many outages are caused or exacerbated because ‘fail-proof’ systems failed. In the outage described above, the IT organization response was delayed by almost two hours and was initially sluggish.

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Relational vs. Non-relational Databases

Pure Storage

This data can be easily filtered, searched, manipulated, and cross-referenced with other relational databases on flight booking websites, airport arrival monitors, customer service centers, and by the FAA. Built-in replication. Sharding, which improves scalability and load balancing.