Jul 192012
 

An unfolding local story, about the recent metro outages that repeatedly left the whole system down, should prove to be a good case study for young technologists studying hardware and software design. The full story has yet to be told, but according to news this morning they found a single hardware component (the pop news does not get much more specific than that though it sounds like a repeater of some kind) whose failure was capable of bricking the whole system. How did they end up with such a design? Why didn’t they notice this before? What is the proper process for responding to the discovery and improving their system, all without loss of service or new exposures?

 Posted by at 6:23 am on July 19, 2012