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Damien Miller

> And I think Google has a backup IRC server on AWS, but that might just apocryphal. They (>1) do exist but not on AWS or any other major cloud provider. (Or at least that was the …

If you enjoy Organic Maps, please consider supporting them financially: https://organicmaps.app/donate/ . Supporting their serving infrastructure for numerous users is surely costl…

Most outdoors activities are safer and more pleasant when there is some sunlight (think: walking through a forest, hiking, swimming in a lake, sports, having a picnic, etc).

Interesting that you are asking for the dirt given that DiRT stands for Disaster and Recovery Testing, at least at Google. Every year there is a DiRT week where hundreds of tests a…

A Gmail outage would be barely an inconvenience as Gmail plays a minor role in Google's disaster response. Disclaimer: Ex-Googler who used to work on disaster reponse. Opinions are…

I found a comment that was factually incorrect and I felt competent to comment on that. Regrettably, I wrote just one sentence and clicked reply without providing any credentials t…

I unfortunately cannot edit the parent comment anymore but several people pointed out that I didn't back up my claim or provided any credentials so here they are: Google has multip…

The safe in question contained a smartcard required to boot an HSM. The safe combination was stored in a secret manager that depended on that HSM. The engineer attempted to restart…

That's not quite how it happened. ;) We used this story as the opening of "Building Secure and Reliable Systems" (chapter 1). You can check it out for free at https://sre.google/st…

I can assure you that Google has a procedure in place for that.

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Thank you for letting us know Lucian! I shared your comment with our publisher (O'Reilly). (disclaimer: I worked on the book)

Confirmed. I was hoping for the platypus but it turns out it was already taken anyway. You can check out the whole O'Reilly menagerie at https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp . (disc…

In a somewhat snarky reply, I can assure you that the book release was planned long in advance, unlike the outages. ;) (disclaimer: I worked on the book)

This book should be suitable for software engineers without security background. There are some sections that might require some knowledge but they are explicitly marked as Deep Di…

Le*v*andowski != Le*w*andowski Seriously though, there is no relation that I am aware of. It's a very common surname in Poland (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewandowski ).…

Most of the design principles covered by the first part of the book are quite generic and can be applied to a broad range of systems. If you are working on embedded systems, the De…

Thanks for pointing this out, we're on it (other formats have a similar problem). (disclaimer: I work at Google)

We were very much aware that not all companies can afford to staff a dedicated security team. We tried to do our best to make sure that the book is applicable to a wider audience: …

We did our best to highlight the intersection of security and reliability. I admit there might be more emphasis on security in some chapters, especially those that overlap with the…