Major outage at Capitec

now05ster said:
Those comments. "Capitec is hacked." Lol.

It is "massively" inconvenient. I use Capitec for my Wire IT transactions as I can't buy prepaid electricity with my Discovery bank account. Today I had to buy electricity from the Checkers cashier like a Plebeian. :mad:

Since last night we are also waiting for my wife's salary to reflect in her Capitec account.

It would be fascinating to be a fly on the wall there and to get a deep dive on the reason for the challenges that they are facing.
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I've seen some interesting things in my past working as a developer. Most notable two incidents I remember:

One of the well known cloud accounting companies in ZA had a very unoptimized database and one day it just fell over, causing about 2 days downtime. Lesson: Don't use EF for massive and critical work loads unless you plan on optimizing it.

One of the banks had DevOps upgrade some systems over a weekend and didn't tell the devs. That Monday it was fun and games trying to roll back Linux updates as the microservices wouldn't run, meaning mobile and web also died for about 6 hours, right at month end.
 
Cactus said:
One of the banks had DevOps upgrade some systems over a weekend and didn't tell the devs. That Monday it was fun and games trying to roll back Linux updates as the microservices wouldn't run, meaning mobile and web also died for about 6 hours, right at month end.
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Communication is key. Why don't people always know WTH is going on so they can plan and be part of the team !!!!

Kak management. That's why.
 
Cactus said:
I've seen some interesting things in my past working as a developer. Most notable two incidents I remember:

One of the well known cloud accounting companies in ZA had a very unoptimized database and one day it just fell over, causing about 2 days downtime. Lesson: Don't use EF for massive and critical work loads unless you plan on optimizing it.

One of the banks had DevOps upgrade some systems over a weekend and didn't tell the devs. That Monday it was fun and games trying to roll back Linux updates as the microservices wouldn't run, meaning mobile and web also died for about 6 hours, right at month end.
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While it must be "fascinating" as an outsider it must be hell for the guys on the ground.
 
now05ster said:
While it must be "fascinating" as an outsider it must be hell for the guys on the ground.
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It is extremely stressful. You have to figure out what's going on, while at the same time, give business reports what happened with an ETA for marketing to communicate back to customers and fix it at the same time. I made the switch to mobile dev a while ago. Much less stressful.

In the scenario of a bank, depending on what goes down, there's financial penalties if you don't clear payments with other banks in a certain periods etc, so I really feel for Capitec's technical team.
 
Still offline. Suppose it's back to sub-Standard Bank on Monday.
 
Impressive no leaks on exact issue. There was a major insurer not so long ago that had some systems down for over six months due to ransomware and that didn't leak either until much later.
 
This is really a massive fckup. Capitec has in one foul swoop just leap frogged every other bank in being crap in 48 hours.
 
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