Originally Posted by
MG23
Plenty of companies have huge IT infrastructure without these kind of problems. Netflix, for example, has a policy of constant testing by randomly making its servers crash and ensuring that nothing bad happens when they do. As I understand it, the only thing they're 100% reliant on is Amazon staying up in at least one region of the world.
Netflix do not care that two people watch the same movie at once. Try sitting two people in 13A or sending a fuzzy logic APIS list. Airline IT is about perishable real stuff. You can't just order some more or turn around and say "oops, you know we said we'd deliver that by tuesday, well, we meant tuesday next month"... Unfortunately, senior IT management in airlines, often not being airline born and bred, seem unaware of this.