--- title: Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days description: Weekend maintenance caused an Italian bank, Sella, to go offline for several days. The issue is possibly related to an update or database schema changes made... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/weekend-maintenance-kicks-an-italian-bank-offline-for-days-qhvtjvxqs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days | daily.dev og:description: Weekend maintenance caused an Italian bank, Sella, to go offline for several days. The issue is possibly related to an update or database schema changes made... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/weekend-maintenance-kicks-an-italian-bank-offline-for-days-qhvtjvxqs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qhVtJVxQS.png og:image:alt: Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days **[The Pragmatic Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/pragmaticengineer)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Weekend maintenance caused an Italian bank, Sella, to go offline for several days. The issue is possibly related to an update or database schema changes made by Oracle. The bank's external IT vendor, Fabrick, is also involved. The outage raises questions about the bank's engineering culture and the utility of blackout windows for maintenance. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#banking](https://daily.dev/tags/banking), [#company-culture](https://daily.dev/tags/company-culture) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/weekend-maintenance-kicks-an-italian-bank-offline-for-days-qhvtjvxqs) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/weekend-maintenance-kicks-an-italian-bank-offline-for-days-qhvtjvxqs","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/weekend-maintenance-kicks-an-italian-bank-offline-for-days-qhvtjvxqs"},"datePublished":"2024-04-11T16:12:40.211Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z","description":"Weekend maintenance caused an Italian bank, Sella, to go offline for several days. The issue is possibly related to an update or database schema changes made...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0f73d9e9f351486f492720e9e473193e?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/0f73d9e9f351486f492720e9e473193e?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Pragmatic Engineer","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Pragmatic Engineer","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/b3ccb8a149434269bda040722d941474","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/pragmaticengineer"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/weekend-maintenance-kicks-an-italian-bank-offline-for-days-qhvtjvxqs","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"banking,company-culture","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Pragmatic Engineer","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/pragmaticengineer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days"}]} ```