✈️ When Flights Stop — and So Does Data: What Alaska Air’s IT Outage Reveals About Operational Resilience
- 29 October 2025
- Software Engineering
When Alaska Air grounded flights after a failure in its primary data center, it looked like a classic IT outage.But behind the headlines was a more modern truth:operations now depend on data performance as much as on hardware reliability. In aviation, a single database delay can cascade through thousands of dependencies — from ticketing to … Continue reading “✈️ When Flights Stop — and So Does Data: What Alaska Air’s IT Outage Reveals About Operational Resilience”
⚡ The Hidden Blackout: How Data Lag Triggered a Grid Failure (and What It Taught Us About Energy Resilience)
- 27 October 2025
- Software Engineering
📍 The Incident In late 2024, a regional utility company in Northern Europe experienced an unexpected power disruption.Not because of a storm.Not because of an overload.But because two monitoring systems were five seconds out of sync. Those five seconds cost the company 19 million euros in operational losses and emergency response. When analysts reconstructed the … Continue reading “⚡ The Hidden Blackout: How Data Lag Triggered a Grid Failure (and What It Taught Us About Energy Resilience)”
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