A more detailed description of last weekend’s massive GCP outage is on the blog - there’s so much I winced at I can’t even highlight specific interesting lines. https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19009 … Configuration change. Automation making things worse. And the postmortem isn’t even fully done
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I am reminded of the marketing papers that say Spanner gets around the CAP theorem because the network will be close to perfect. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/inside-cloud-spanner-and-the-cap-theorem … … I am just going to use my outside voice when I roll my eyes from now on. 5/5
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Even worse is ex Google engineers have spread this design across multiple Bay Area companies. It’s all justified as Google does it, we have to scale like them!
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