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recent bookmarks from jmVisa admits 5m payments failed over a broken switch2018-06-20T09:43:40+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/19/visa-admits-5m-payments-failed-over-a-broken-switch
jm“We operate two redundant data centres in the UK, meaning that either one can independently handle 100% of the transactions for Visa in Europe. In normal circumstances, the systems are synchronised and either centre can take over from the other immediately … in this instance, a component with a switch in our primary data centre suffered a very rare partial failure which prevented the backup switch from activating.”
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