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Yes well lets have this outage again in that flavour in say... 11 months?
by erhk 5y ago
Yes well lets have this outage again in that flavour in say... 11 months?
- bhawks 5y agoTaking a bet that complex systems will fail is usually free money :). Having been a part of Google the only thing more awe inspiring than the sheer complexity of production is the fact that it all worked so well. This is not a dig at current Googlers but entropy is cruel and uncaring. Perhaps parts of the stack which have been kept fit & fresh in people's minds due to constant rewrites will last longer but there are tons of places in the depot that are unowned despite serving production query traffic and the number of engineers that have any context to support it grows smaller over time.
- cornel_io 5y agoGoogle (at least the good parts) has a pretty good culture of documentation, which helps a bit. While it drove me batty to need to spend a month writing up 10 page specs and getting sign off from directors for a minor feature that nobody would see and would take 3 days to code up, it was nice to be able to trace through the historical evolution of abandoned features when trying to figure out how they worked. No idea if Facebook is similar.