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You would think that the company that literally wrote the book on “Site Reliability Engineering” would actually follow their own recommendations.
by xyst 4y ago
You would think that the company that literally wrote the book on “Site Reliability Engineering” would actually follow their own recommendations.
- ddol 4y agoDo Google host their own products on Google Cloud, or are there different sets of data centres for Search/Drive/Gmail vs Google Cloud Customers?
- jeffbee 4y agoThis is a leased facility, the kind of place Google rents for cloud customers but doesn't need for itself. Google's own datacenters are https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/ https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/locations/
- packetslave 4y agoOther way around. Google Cloud runs on the same underlying datacenter, compute, and network infrastructure that Search/Drive/Gmail does. [edit: at least in regions where Google HAS its own datacenters, e.g. "us-central-1? yes. europe-west9? maybe not"]. That does not imply that Search / Drive / Gmail runs on top of Google Cloud.
- kevincox 4y agoThey do internally. But when customers want 3 zones in Indonesia they cut corners.
- CydeWeys 4y agoThe recommendations are to run in multiple regions if you need this kind of redundancy. Run everything in a single region and you can be affected by an event like this.
- londons_explore 4y agoGoogles advice is not to rely on uptime in every region. Instead aim for uptime in a few regions, and load balance your users to regions that are healthy. That design is far cheaper for both google and for you - and, in the typical case, users still get nice low latency to a local datacenter, and only in the rare failure case might they have to wait for latency to some other region.