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i was unable to update my driving licence for the best part of a year because of some (still unknown) internal issue.

i hope they have better luck bringing back up a degraded/read-only etcd service after a power cut.

unrelated - i guess i have some real contempt for the current deployment stack meta :/

DVLA systems seem to be an absolute mess, and many public-facing systems are still using the DirectGov styling (which was replaced by GOV.UK in 2012). A lot of their services are completely unavailable overnight from 7pm-7am. So if you sell a vehicle on the last day of the month and go to register the sale after 7pm, bad luck - you're getting charged another month of vehicle tax.

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