#550 – November 19, 2023
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed
How one line of code caused a $60 million loss
3 minutes by Leonardo Creed
60,000 people lost full phone service, half of AT&T's network was down, and 500 airline flights were delayed.
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Four Kinds of Optimisation
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Premature optimisation might be the root of all evil, but overdue optimisation is the root of all frustration. No matter how fast hardware becomes, we find it easy to write programs which run too slow. Often this is not immediately apparent.
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You won’t believe what happens next.
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