# SFTP Upload Failures in a Financial Institution's Daily Account Transfer Process

DevFeed: [SFTP Upload Failures in a Financial Institution's Daily Account Transfer Process](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/spooky-stories-money-transfers-on-the-edge-of-town-35988.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/spooky-stories-money-transfers-on-the-edge-of-town>)

Author: Angie Byron

Published: 2024-10-09T16:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/transactions.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [file](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/file.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [account](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/account.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>)

Tags: [account](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/account.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [failed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/failed.md>), [file](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/file.md>), [financial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/financial.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>), [sftp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sftp.md>), [transactions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transactions.md>)

## AI overview

A fictional story illustrates a financial institution's real-world migration of its daily sweep process to Temporal. The institution used SFTP to exchange account balances and transfers, but frequent upload and download failures, overloaded servers, and database-load-related query failures regularly required employee intervention.

## Source excerpt

The bank on the edge of town was haunted - or at least, that's what folks often said.