Posts by jamestaylor17 2 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2017
''So they should not have lost power to the equipment, but they evidently did. My money is on a failure of the UPS or the generator and not on the down stream power distribution architecture.''
At last, someone who knows what they are talking about, I would add it could also be a HV switchgear fault
''The problem is that it kills performance...''
Not always, depends on your distance I've implemented Oracle DBs and replicated synchronously across miles of fibre without any knock on performance - and that's with a high performance workload. Of course and major distance and you would be in trouble.
Your point about sharding is, of course, well made but the truth is BA's legacy architecture is unlikely to be suitable.
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