/biz/ - Business & Finance

I have a rule of not opening my broker until 9:35. You see, I do enterprise technical support. I once worked on-site at a bank to resolve a technical problem they had. The issue was seen between 9:30-9:35, the rest of the day their systems worked fine. The problem was, their HAProxy loadbalancers were getting overloaded, it was a pretty simple problem of just scaling up additional loadbalancers.

For this particular system, they saw 90% of their day's traffic in just those 5 minutes. Thus as a rule I do not want to contribute to that headache and strain on the system. I dont mind waiting 5 minutes.