Betfair Down / Betfair site crash
- bennyboy351
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WHY DO WE PUT UP WITH THIS BETFAIR BO**OCKS? I bet their in house traders are making them a nice little packet!
it is what it is...! and because no one wants to try anywhere else maybe...? we want to trade where the volume is so why trade anywhere else...?bennyboy351 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 11, 2021 6:13 pmWHY DO WE PUT UP WITH THIS BETFAIR BO**OCKS? I bet their in house traders are making them a nice little packet!
I'm sure you've all read things like these:
- https://ppb.technology/2019/09/24/showc ... it-london/
- https://www.slideshare.net/ConfluentInc ... -scale-10x
So they're based on Kafka, which is not something I have a lot of experience with, although I do with WebSphere MQ messaging which it is a bit akin to. I'm somewhat surprised given Kafka's reliability models that there is an outage like this, which makes me think it's probably not a core Kafka issue, but some obviously critical side service... any ideas anyone? Do they ever publish details of the technical reasons for outages? i'd be interested in reading.
- https://ppb.technology/2019/09/24/showc ... it-london/
- https://www.slideshare.net/ConfluentInc ... -scale-10x
So they're based on Kafka, which is not something I have a lot of experience with, although I do with WebSphere MQ messaging which it is a bit akin to. I'm somewhat surprised given Kafka's reliability models that there is an outage like this, which makes me think it's probably not a core Kafka issue, but some obviously critical side service... any ideas anyone? Do they ever publish details of the technical reasons for outages? i'd be interested in reading.
I totally get that complex systems are prone to issues. So I can sort of come to terms with that and how difficult it is to manage.
But I find it tough to come to terms with how they manage it and their policies surrounding them.
They currently benefit when the site crashes, they should be punished for it.
But I find it tough to come to terms with how they manage it and their policies surrounding them.
They currently benefit when the site crashes, they should be punished for it.
Why do they benefit? surely they're losing transaction income?
Seems they thus have no incentive to make sure it is more reliable... If I had a "corner a market" and actually made money if the system had a glitch, I would definitely not hurry to fix it, at least while we still had it "cornered"...!