You’re undeniably right about not looking at Facebook or Google as one whole system, but there have also been what seems like an unprecedented number of strange

You’re undeniably right about not looking at Facebook or Google as one whole system, but there have also been what seems like an unprecedented number of strange little outages (see the ones mentioned by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19382418 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19382418) that aren’t huge companies. My workplace had some of their own today that I haven’t heard an incident report about (it’s a pretty large company and I’m not in IT).