The End of the Month for the second time of the year we have yet another British Banking technical failure.
Lloyds Bank and Halifax apps went down on Friday morning, according to thousands of user reports to platform outage monitor Downdetector. For the lay-person, Lloyds Bank, Halifax, TSB and the older Bank of Scotland (HBOS) are all under legal entities under the Lloyds Banking Group umbrella. If an failure of infrastructure, systems and applicatins takes place under TSB, then it certainly means the rest of the group under the umbrella will be affected, and so it has proven, once again.

Commenters believe this is the aging mainframe and "bridging" architecture that is at fault. They do not believe in nefarious cyber attack or other outside attackers. Nor is likely to be deliberate compromise.

My VLOG Episode 2025.1 has proved to be salient https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLytJUBQFg

[1] https://downdetector.co.uk/status/halifax/

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/28/lloyds-nationwide-tsb-halifax-bank-of-scotland-online-banking-problems

[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/28/millions-of-workers-hit-by-banking-app-failure-on-payday/

[4] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9nnz2eqzdo

For those of yous, who prefer to watch and listen over reading, see Episode 2025.1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyLytJUBQFg

Principal Technology Episode 2025.1 Yet Another Technical UK Banking Failure - Single Point of Failure / Weakness

This is my first opinon writing piece for such a long time. I felt it was high time to get my nifty fingers active literally again, producing content over endlessly consuming it.

#architecture #software #technology #dashboards #outage #data #loss #consumer #confidence

https://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/2025/02/23/yet-another-technical-uk-banking-failure-single-point-of-weakness/

Back to blogging again. HAPPY with that first one in 2025.

I will do at least ONE blog arcticle per month. Let's get that Cadence back on track for me, myself and I.💪🏾

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Today I let my best person that I know down. I feel like sh8t . I’m going to die sad and alone. End of.

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The UK Home Secretary - Suella Braverman should resign - she has shown her true colours and that is why we don’t love you

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I don’t have a buffer any more . This is the absolute truth. If this one fails I will go under.

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@timbray @timbray Interesting, as an iOS user and being Black and British I have never thought of this as a solution. FaceID can unlock and get into bank accounts. I wonder what the quick fix for iOS? We had a case of this profiling with elite athletes in recent years: One Portugal and One Brit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67214409

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