Knight Capital: how a reused feature flag lost $460 million

DEV Community·2 points·axrisi·2 days ago·dev.to

Knight Capital, August 1, 2012: new code reached 7 of 8 servers, a reused feature flag woke dead code on the 8th, and it lost $460 million in 45 minutes.

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