Jamil Ahmed
IT OUTAGE
Jamil Ahmed
Director ( Solution Engineering UK & I ) Solace
“ The reason the outage was so widespread is due to how ubiquitous the Windows operating system is across various industries . Airlines use it for check-in desks , retail use it for point-of-sales machines – and more . “ Organisations with a modern IT stack , leveraging approaches such as APIs and Event-Driven Architecture , will bounce back the earliest . APIs allow for different ways of accessing the server-side backends , so that if Windows-based screens are inoperable , contingencies around bringing up different IT channels ( such as mobile devices ) can be used .
“ For those with event-driven architecture , this pattern already assumes that everything is decoupled and not necessarily up and running at the same time . In other words , server-side activity such as rebooking passenger flights can be taking place , even if the screens at the airport desks cannot show it . All this underscores our dependency on digital infrastructure . Those that have invested in it will see a return today of bouncing back faster than peers that did not .”
92 August 2024