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Learning for others to let them see what kinds of problems can happen. To demonstrate they are competent and can diagnose and fix a problem quickly. Sometimes to explain why the downtime took that amount of time.

For example Interactive Brokers was down completely for almost the whole trading session and they just said that they are sorry and that it was their database vendor who messed up. No more details, nothing. Just "we take the quality and resiliency of our systems very seriously".



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