>What the fuck are they doing with these money and 200k servers?
Gluing together layer upon layer of legacy systems that are so old & opaque they are essentially black boxes nobody dares remove or replace.
oh and that small regional bank that was acquired 4 years ago? Yep...they've got an entirely separate stack of legacy systems. And that other jurisdiction with different data laws? Everything is different there too.
It's insane looking under the hood of these things. How banks manage to not lose half the money daily is a complete mystery to me.
Gluing together layer upon layer of legacy systems that are so old & opaque they are essentially black boxes nobody dares remove or replace.
oh and that small regional bank that was acquired 4 years ago? Yep...they've got an entirely separate stack of legacy systems. And that other jurisdiction with different data laws? Everything is different there too.
It's insane looking under the hood of these things. How banks manage to not lose half the money daily is a complete mystery to me.