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Probably the best reference is the SRE book, specifically the chapters on loadbalancing and distributed consensus protocols. Other than that, the general approach is to minimize gl…

Checking specifically for GCS at https://status.cloud.google.com/summary ... There are two outages there, one that only affected a few projects and one that affected only service i…

Ok, I dug into this a bit. You got stuck in a trap in our current setup. We've improved the docs slightly to make this less common, we're going to fix up the error messages to be m…

If it helps, I'll dig into this when I get into work. This is the first I've heard of this case. -Andrew, GCS

I think you're joking, but just for those that don't think that, we don't actually do that.

The issue that you're complaining about was due to the incident linked at [1]. I can't go into the technical details as to why this happened, but I can roughly explain that it was …

I'm not sure why you're getting those quota errors, but I can assure you that we're not trying to pressure people to stop using SMTP and IMAP. If you post on the forums, some user …

It all depends. I don't know how Boomerang is implemented, but it's possible that with an account your size it's hitting some degenerate condition. One of our support folks should …

I'm sorry that trick isn't working for you. As you mention LKML causes slowdown, it's possible that you're getting an inordinate amount of mail. It's also possible you've got an ag…

There are people working on those sorts of improvements, but it's not that straightforward so it takes time to get it right. The reason that it's not that straightforward is that l…

I have about 2.5 million emails in my work account and it still works really well, as a counter example. (I work at Google, on Gmail backend). If you've debugged it yourself and ca…

I was coming to this page just to post a comment like yours above. Thanks for doing that. I work on the Gmail backend team and we regularly see blogs go by such as this one. The va…