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this was amusing for me, because i am JUST starting to test out google's cloud offerings and got hit by this outage on basically day 1. Luckily, it wasn't too l

• EugeneOZ 8y ago
  Bobby Tables?
  • dylan604 8y ago
    Recently ran into an issue with a provider's CSV export of their data not quoting some of their text fields. It was a minor annoyance in that the data in the text field was user input where the user used commas. Importing in Excel then had the columns mangled by the extra commas. I then made the comment to sign in using Bobby Drop Tables for a user name. The silence in the room quickly reminded me I was not in the company of other developers. Such a waste
• foxylad 8y ago
  We've been on Appengine for years, and one of the un-intuitive benefits is that when something goes wrong, all you can do is sit back and tell your customers "a team of the best sysadmins in the world are working on it right now". I've met many people who hate that abdication of responsibility, and would prefer to be heroically hacking solutions at 3am when their database replication fails. Maybe they feel they have to be punished for failing their customers. My advice is keep testing GC, because in my experience it is very reliable. And once you realise that, the peace of mind is awesome.