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I know it can happen to anyone and that every system will eventually go down no matter how many resources are spent or how smart you are. Heck, it might even be financially prudent to not chase those last 9s of uptime. But r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ posting this hours after a huge outage that affected most services for over an hour and also less than 12 days after a similar multi-hour outage seems somewhat ironic. EDIT: gues…
I know it can happen to anyone and that every system will eventually go down no matter how many resources are spent or how smart you are. Heck, it might even be financially prudent to not chase those last 9s of uptime. But r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ posting this hours after a huge outage that affected most services for over an hour and also less than 12 days after a similar multi-hour outage seems somewhat ironic. EDIT: gues…
I guess people didn't like that - "it might even be financially prudent to not chase those last 9s of uptime." It just promotes bad mindset
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I know it can happen to anyone and that every system will eventually go down no matter how many resources are spent or how smart you are. Heck, it might even be financially prudent to not chase those last 9s of uptime. But r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ posting this hours after a huge outage that affected most services for over an hour and also less than 12 days after a similar multi-hour outage seems somewhat ironic. EDIT: gues…
Upvoted since I was going to make the same comment. I have been dealing with some downfall from that issue today. As a user of their cloud services, my perception of their reliability is pretty low compared to competitors. I still like GCP the best though.
I guess we tend to notice more the flaws of the services we use the most
Android, their most popular end-user product, is a security disaster [1].
Chrome, "the most secure browser in the world", has a huge list of serious vulnerabilities [2].
[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~drt24/papers/spsm-scoring.pdf
[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...
I know it can happen to anyone and that every system will eventually go down no matter how many resources are spent or how smart you are. Heck, it might even be financially prudent to not chase those last 9s of uptime. But r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ posting this hours after a huge outage that affected most services for over an hour and also less than 12 days after a similar multi-hour outage seems somewhat ironic. EDIT: gues…
Upvoted since I was going to make the same comment. I have been dealing with some downfall from that issue today. As a user of their cloud services, my perception of their reliability is pretty low compared to competitors. I still like GCP the best though.
What does a lizard have to do with SRE?
Disclaimer - I work for Google and worked on this book.
Genuinely curious: What secure and reliable systems has Google built? Nothing really springs to mind. Android, their most popular end-user product, is a security disaster [1]. Chrome, "the most secure browser in the world", has a huge list of serious vulnerabilities [2]. [1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~drt24/papers/spsm-scoring.pdf [2] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...
I know it can happen to anyone and that every system will eventually go down no matter how many resources are spent or how smart you are. Heck, it might even be financially prudent to not chase those last 9s of uptime. But r̶e̶l̶e̶a̶s̶i̶n̶g̶ posting this hours after a huge outage that affected most services for over an hour and also less than 12 days after a similar multi-hour outage seems somewhat ironic. EDIT: gues…
That's the basic premise of an "error budget".