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At Google -- no. At OVH -- yes, apparently. Google have it's own outages, caused mostly by a network config change or software update, but not from fiber cuts.
by deepsun 11y ago
At Google -- no. At OVH -- yes, apparently. Google have it's own outages, caused mostly by a network config change or software update, but not from fiber cuts.
- tomschlick 11y agoPlus Google has a shit ton of redundancy. I remember watching a video about their site reliability team. Their job is to test worst case scenarios and they can/will cut an entire datacenter out of a service's (gmail, drive, etc) pool to see what happens.
- oasisbob 11y agoTheir exercises are also excellent at including the full organization in DiRT, not just engineering. eg, Just because someone is "authorized" to spend six-figures for scheduling a diesel delivery doesn't mean they will. _Weathering the Unexpected_ https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516 https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516