Jack's Rants - Batch Job Blues : Why Mainframes And Banks Still Rule The World
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Jack's Rants dives into the world of banking mainframes and the batch jobs that quietly keep everything moving — until one of them doesn't. What starts as a routine overnight run turns into a multiple transactions on thousands of accounts that didnt happen in the real world, but the mainframe says something else.
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00:00 Rant Kickoff
01:23 Transaction Glitch
03:14 Batch Job Drama
05:23 Mainframe Pros
07:33 Wrap Up
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