--- title: "Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days" url: https://daily.dev/posts/weekend-maintenance-kicks-an-italian-bank-offline-for-days-qhvtjvxqs source_url: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/italian-bank-outage/ type: article source: "The Pragmatic Engineer" published: 2024-04-11T16:12:40.211Z updated: 2024-05-09T08:29:02.242Z tags: ["banking", "company-culture"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: 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: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- 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)