New Posts For Thread: As an IT professional, what advice would you give Betfair?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfairReading through the many threads following recent events, culminating in the catastrophic failure on Saturday, it’s clear that there are a lot of savvy and seasoned IT guys on the Forum. I thought it might be interesting to try and bring togetherusually senior management chip in with helpful one liners like "just facking sort it" ..so that would be my advice.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489415357#489415357usually senior management chip in with helpful one liners like "just facking sort it" ..so that would be my advice.Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:51:13 -0500ChillyGood point, but, would the market not naturally price in that risk?https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489236085#489236085ChillyGood point, but, would the market not naturally price in that risk?Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:03:53 -0500GusYep, some of the old adages spring to mind, like: "If it ain't broke don't fix it".Just CheckingI agree that there is definitely something about segregation; getting the systems into manageable bite sized discrete chunks. We all know that large uhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489235621#489235621GusYep, some of the old adages spring to mind, like: "If it ain't broke don't fix it".Just CheckingI agree that there is definitely something about segregation; getting the systems into manageable bite sized discrete chunks. We all know that large uTue, 15 Mar 2011 07:58:18 -0500Problem with running markets on exchange failures is that some dodgt russian with a large botnet can probably lump on and then nuke the site. the CIA had terrorism prediction markets for a while but decided it was probably not a good idea for the samhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489226881#489226881Problem with running markets on exchange failures is that some dodgt russian with a large botnet can probably lump on and then nuke the site. the CIA had terrorism prediction markets for a while but decided it was probably not a good idea for the samTue, 15 Mar 2011 06:12:00 -0500Given the lack of relationship in function between say sports betting and the arcade stuff, if a lot of these new changes are for THAT perhaps they should be hosting that on completely separate servers, e.g. all such servers on arcade.betfair.com, pehttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489179837#489179837Given the lack of relationship in function between say sports betting and the arcade stuff, if a lot of these new changes are for THAT perhaps they should be hosting that on completely separate servers, e.g. all such servers on arcade.betfair.com, peMon, 14 Mar 2011 17:02:34 -0500Getting back to the original topic of this thread:"As an IT professional, what advice would you give Betfair?"I'd add: There have , in the recent past (another poster mentioned the period before and during last year's World Cup, and i'd agree) , beenhttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489178477#489178477Getting back to the original topic of this thread:"As an IT professional, what advice would you give Betfair?"I'd add: There have , in the recent past (another poster mentioned the period before and during last year's World Cup, and i'd agree) , beenMon, 14 Mar 2011 16:51:52 -0500Seems there was a code freeze before going to Dublin, this caused a back log of changes and these were pushed through poorly tested and once problems started to happen they just ploughed on.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489173105#489173105Seems there was a code freeze before going to Dublin, this caused a back log of changes and these were pushed through poorly tested and once problems started to happen they just ploughed on.Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:11:28 -0500It all seems very disjointed having data and people in Malta, Dublin, Australian, London etc. Did the major problems start when they started the major shift over to Dublin? Is there is a massive pre-occupation with making tax savings and this is forchttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489171617#489171617It all seems very disjointed having data and people in Malta, Dublin, Australian, London etc. Did the major problems start when they started the major shift over to Dublin? Is there is a massive pre-occupation with making tax savings and this is forcMon, 14 Mar 2011 15:58:19 -0500you would of course have to keep adjusting your hedge to current exposure levels. after a month of not having an outage the price may be getting pretty short and expensive to increase your hedge :-)if im on £14k in IT I could also fund my lifestylehttps://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489167921#489167921you would of course have to keep adjusting your hedge to current exposure levels. after a month of not having an outage the price may be getting pretty short and expensive to increase your hedge :-)if im on £14k in IT I could also fund my lifestyleMon, 14 Mar 2011 15:26:55 -0500getinthereI was posting at the same time as you - obviously we're all thinking along the same lines.https://community.betfair.com/general_betting/go/thread/view/94082/27242389/as-an-it-professional-what-advice-would-you-give-betfair?post_id=489167253#489167253getinthereI was posting at the same time as you - obviously we're all thinking along the same lines.Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:21:11 -0500