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In Google terminology is a "mitigation" the same as a solution? I read it as "Yeah, we still have no idea how to fix this correctly, but we have applied a tempo
by mrweasel 3y ago
In Google terminology is a "mitigation" the same as a solution? I read it as "Yeah, we still have no idea how to fix this correctly, but we have applied a temporary work-around".
- peddling-brink 3y agoI can’t speak for google, but in common parlance, mitigation simply means the problem isn’t affecting you any more. Doubtless they will perform a full post-mortem, identify the contributing factors, and fix them over the coming days, weeks, quarters. Edit: “we are assessing its effectiveness” lol, yeah that sounds more like they they are throwing something at the wall to see if it sticks.
- denysvitali 3y agoWhich is arguably better than just waiting for something to stick to the wall by itself
- yegle 3y agoDisclaimer: Google SRE working in Cloud but not related to the GKE product. Mitigation can vary: an additional firewall rule to stop certain traffic, a rollback to known good version, temporarily redirect traffic away from impacted data center. A mitigation is part of an incident response mainly focused on stopping the pain to whoever are impacted, it may not always be a long term solution.
- VirusNewbie 3y agoIt more or less means actions have been taken to reduce or eliminate the problem, but it is not the same as the long term fix. Mitigation might be 'give more CPU' to the system, despite the performance regression still being in the code etc.