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		nikanj on Dec 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Southwest cancels 5,400 flights in less than 48 ho... 30 years of cumulative complexity in the existing stack, with endless edge-cases and special exceptions

sjm-lbm on Dec 27, 2022 [–]

.. and, as we're learning, extremely high penalties if one of those edge cases happens to cause a cascading failure.

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