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Melbourne Cup Meltdown : How a Betting System Crashed at the Worst Possible Moment

Melbourne Cup Meltdown : How a Betting System Crashed at the Worst Possible Moment

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Every year, the Melbourne Cup pushes Australia's betting infrastructure to its limits. In 1991, a known software bug turned one of the busiest days of the year into an IT disaster. As millions of bets poured in, CPU utilisation unexpectedly collapsed and the betting system ground to a halt at the worst possible moment.

Jack Smith is joined by veteran mainframe specialist Neale to revisit the incident, explain why the bug had been accepted for so long, how the team recovered, and what modern IT professionals can learn about technical debt, capacity planning, and the risks of carrying known defects into critical production systems.

Want even more info ? Read our show notes and related blog post related to this episode : https://blog.ithorrorstories.eu/episode-19-melbourne-cup-meltdown/

00:00 Introduction
00:53 Mainframe Basics
02:01 Melbourne Cup Explained
05:01 System Failure
09:06 Aftermath & Reflection
17:03 Learning from Errors
21:53 Modern Vs. Past Tech
29:51 Conclusion

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