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Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube had outage issues
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Re: Gmail, Google Maps and YouTube had outage issues
#62Looks like services are back up as of 7 minutes ago
9/12/2017 @ 10:27 AM +MST (Time services reported back up according to status page)
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#63I 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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#64Gmail and YouTube are working fine in NC. Maybe they're getting things sorted out now.
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#66I think it's a little premature to be calling this a "meltdown". It's like calling one block of houses with power fluctuations a "blackout".
Media outlets are in the business of making sensational claims.
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#67Gmail and gsuite working here in NYC
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reboot helps. May be Google runs Windows. Then they just need to reboot more frequently, ie. proactively.
Funnily enough, in one previous company I worked, which used Linux exclusively, the software was very buggy, and the servers were rebooted daily. We jokingly called that the "Windows solution". When we proposed adding a daily reboot to cron, the tech lead (which encouraged practices which lead to this low quality software) retorted that "this in not Windows, it doesn't need constant reboots", totally missing the poin…
Sounds familiar. I had a client once, who had to reboot one particular router every day because it stopped working after 8h uptime. So one of their employees did that every morning by logging into some server via remote desktop to click the "reboot" button. I asked why they don't use some kind of cron job to automate that task, they just said "it doesn't work that way, you have to do it manually".
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#69I was just about to make a snarky remark about the heatmap, referencing that XKCD about heatmaps that just mirror population densities, and then I noticed that the West Coast is barely affected. That's quite strange.
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There is a common practice for Node.js developers to use one of those tools that automatically reboot the site either whenever the single-threaded-event-loop-server crashes, or periodically...
While this pattern is common in node, it's not node specific. Erlang/OTP uses supervised process trees, Linux has supervisord to support this pattern, and the general idea is called "crash-only" software [1], among other names.