Target hit by nationwide payment outage

An update: it looks like all stores are back online. This is the official message from corporate:

“Target’s registers are fully back online and guests are able to purchase their merchandise again in all stores. The temporary outage earlier today was the result of an internal technology issue that lasted for approximately two hours. Our technology team worked quickly to identify and fix the issue, and we apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this caused for our guests. After an initial but thorough review, we can confirm that this was not a data breach or security-related issue, and no guest information was compromised at any time. We appreciate all of our store team members who worked quickly to assist guests and thank everyone involved for their patience.”

https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2019/06/target-a...

"Hey guys, I think I just broke Production..."

I wonder what the single point of failure was to take out every store nationwide of a 45 billion dollar company.

>The greatest challenge teams faced with developing software for the stores was figuring out how to effectively build a continuous delivery pipeline to 1,800 deployment targets that was safe and expedient.[1]

[1] https://tech.target.com/infrastructure/2018/06/20/enter-unim...

not sure what the root cause was, but i'm sure it wasn't dns! xD

Target is down. I repeat, target is down.