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Compared to a system with maintenance windows, yeah, maybe? Banking seems pretty forgiving honestly. Customers accept 3-5 business days latency per transaction. And even if you get it wrong the first time, money is fungible. It seems like it should call for more relaxed practices than systems that need to process non-fungible data in tens of milliseconds 24x7.


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