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You gotta feel bad for that intern that tripped over a server cable.

• dspeyer 14y ago
  Google is better designed than that. No single cable failure could cause a user-facing outage of more than a few minutes.
  • bproctor 14y ago
    I'm pretty sure he was joking
    • zecho 14y ago
      Maybe it was sarcasm all the way down?
  • rgbrenner 14y ago
    I hope not.. If it takes more than a couple of minutes for you to figure out how to plug in a cable, I would wonder why google let you in the building
    • dspeyer 14y ago
      If it's a main multimegawatt power cable, it could take a while to plug back in (first the charred corpse needs to be removed). But it doesn't take long to redirect all traffic to another datacenter.