Centralisation vs decentralisation.
Cost-savings vs localisation of disaster.
It's a swinging pendulum of decisions. And developers know that software/hardware provision is a house of cards. The more levels of dependency, the more fragile the system is.
Absolutely horrible when lives will be lost, but determining the way our global systems are engineered and paid for will always be a moving target based on policy and incentive.
My heart goes out to life and death results of this. There are no perfect tech solutions.
It's a swinging pendulum of decisions. And developers know that software/hardware provision is a house of cards. The more levels of dependency, the more fragile the system is.
Absolutely horrible when lives will be lost, but determining the way our global systems are engineered and paid for will always be a moving target based on policy and incentive.
My heart goes out to life and death results of this. There are no perfect tech solutions.