This article is FUD. Complete nonesense really. Continuous integration had nothing to do with the Gmail outage (which mind you was just for the web app, no emai

This article is FUD. Complete nonesense really. Continuous integration had nothing to do with the Gmail outage (which mind you was just for the web app, no emails were lost and since my phone/desktop clients kept working I only knew Gmail was down because of Twitter). > The search giant reported that it conducted an update of its load-balancing software from 8:45 a.m. to 9:13 a.m. U.S. West Coast time, and after the problems were detected it managed to quickly roll back the buggy code. But this didn’t stop some people from questioning why Google would roll out a software update during peak e-mail hours on the West Coast. Perhaps because the update wasn't to Gmail, it was to the load balancing system? It's not uncommon to have issues arise in load balancing while under load. I'd say the engineers did a good job dealing with the problem all things considered--load balancing issues are notoriously tricky.