All flights grounded in USA
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Since 5:30am- computer glitch they’re saying…
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For a software engineer’s perspective- this isn’t a glitch. If it was just a glitch then it would have failed at some point in time before now Also, systems don’t take that long to reboot- 10-15 minutes max. Even if it’s due to a central server going down, it would have mirrored clustered load balancing backups ready to go for a system of this magnitude in importance.
You'd be surprised at the antique systems much of our infrastructure runs on. I'm not sure about this one, but others run on obscure hardware with software written in Cobol which is pretty much only taught in India now.
True. A large portion of grocery/retail chains run off of old AS/400 or Mainframe systems running COBOL or RPG.
Sounds like a great way to take down a countries antiquated system that refused to update the infrastructure.
While your assessment is likely correct, glitches are glitches because they're unforeseen. The smallest possible factor or combination of factors could hit at just the right way or at just the right time and something that has never happened before could suddenly happen out of the blue.
Also, code can corrupt -- especially code that relies on the transmission of real time data.
It doesn't sound like this has happened in any fashion before, so that definitively would rule out the latter.
It couldn't be a server going down as that would have backups ready for something so important, as you said.
Honestly, whole thing is weird. "Glitch" just sounds like a cover story. It is plausible. But it also sounds like plausible deniability.
'Glitch' is both a dumbing-down excuse for normies, and sometimes a cover for 'we don't know yet what's going on ourselves so let's blame the computers...'
Normies wouldn't know that.