Works for me. Either quickly down-and-up or isolated to certain users.
I think google is pretty good about engineering no global single points of failure; all updates are rolled out to only a fraction of users/machines at a time, etc.
Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube had outage issues
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#12App Engine / US Central + East working fine.
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#13Working fine in SLC
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#14I don't think i've ever read a news story about a website/app being down, and it was still offline by the time the news story found me.
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#15Our site was using hosted libraries, google fonts, and google analytics. All of which seemed to be behind captchas, throwing CORS errors, and 503ing since this morning. Swapped out JQuery cdn for now.
Is there a good reason to use these things hosted by a third party source? Libraries are tiny, the fonts can be downloaded from Google Fonts and embedded locally, etc. Even the Google Analytics JS script I presume can be stored and run local. Shouldn't a goal be to mitigate the number of possible failures which can bring down your site by reducing the number of single points of failure?
IIRC Google Fonts aren't easy to download because they vary by user agent.
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#16Our site was using hosted libraries, google fonts, and google analytics. All of which seemed to be behind captchas, throwing CORS errors, and 503ing since this morning. Swapped out JQuery cdn for now.
Is there a good reason to use these things hosted by a third party source? Libraries are tiny, the fonts can be downloaded from Google Fonts and embedded locally, etc. Even the Google Analytics JS script I presume can be stored and run local. Shouldn't a goal be to mitigate the number of possible failures which can bring down your site by reducing the number of single points of failure?
One reason is that by linking to external libraries your browser most likely has them cached. At least it was the case a few years ago when I was doing web dev.
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#17Had about 30 minutes of downtime (UK) - was completely down on one account, and intermittent on another. So guess it wasn't affecting everyone.
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#18Our site was using hosted libraries, google fonts, and google analytics. All of which seemed to be behind captchas, throwing CORS errors, and 503ing since this morning. Swapped out JQuery cdn for now.
Is there a good reason to use these things hosted by a third party source? Libraries are tiny, the fonts can be downloaded from Google Fonts and embedded locally, etc. Even the Google Analytics JS script I presume can be stored and run local. Shouldn't a goal be to mitigate the number of possible failures which can bring down your site by reducing the number of single points of failure?
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#19Our site was using hosted libraries, google fonts, and google analytics. All of which seemed to be behind captchas, throwing CORS errors, and 503ing since this morning. Swapped out JQuery cdn for now.
Is there a good reason to use these things hosted by a third party source? Libraries are tiny, the fonts can be downloaded from Google Fonts and embedded locally, etc. Even the Google Analytics JS script I presume can be stored and run local. Shouldn't a goal be to mitigate the number of possible failures which can bring down your site by reducing the number of single points of failure?
2 reasons:
1. If you're still using HTTP 1.x, sharding assets across origins lets the browser load them in parallel (if set up correctly). You can generally load just 6 assets in parallel per origin, and sharding is a way to get around that limit.
2. A library like jQuery is so popular, and is so often served from googles CDN, that chances are a user already has it in their local cache from when they downloaded it on some other site.
That said, yes - the downside is more surface area that might go down.
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#20Does not seem to affect Europe. In fact, right now YouTube loads far quicker than it has for the last seven to ten days, where it would take ages to load any YouTube page.
reboot helps. May be Google runs Windows. Then they just need to reboot more frequently, ie. proactively.