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There are pretty different uptime and stability requirements for a social product and web search (or other Google products like Gmail). When news feed is broken
by esprehn 2y ago
There are pretty different uptime and stability requirements for a social product and web search (or other Google products like Gmail). When news feed is broken life moves on, when those products break many people can't get any work done at all.
One of Google's major cultural challenges is imposing the move slow and carefully culture on everything though.
- zeroonetwothree 2y agoIt’s not considered ok for newsfeed to break. It would be a massive issue that would command the full attention of everyone.
- esprehn 2y agoAnd yet folks who are on call for it say things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40826497 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40826497