It is interesting that this corresponded with the announcement of the FBI raiding Trump’s house.
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#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
BGP problems will usually manifest as something being unreachable. This seems to be 500 errors which suggest code breaking somewhere.
I was getting mostly 502's indicating their reverse proxies couldn't reach the back end so it's very possible an internal routing issue was at fault.
Misconfiguration at GFE control plane?
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know many people’s immediate reaction is that 500GB seems small, but remember, they’re not storing the whole internet — just an index of it. The whole internet would need a much larger RAID, with literally dozens of hard disks.
They kind of do store the internet though, don't they? They store a cached version of most pages.
Tbh the source code of the whole internet would probably be a few PB at most, text is really cheap to store especially because it can be compressed. Images and videos are what makes the premise impossible because even with perfect compression you need an impossible amount of storage to store every video published by mankind.
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#184Place those bets, was it BGP? My money is always on BGP somehow.
Maybe someone tried to resurrect the Search Timer code [0].
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#185There's a typo in the page's title: `Error 500 (Server Error)!!1`
If you mean the punctuation, that is not a typo.
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#186https://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/26/michael.jackson.internet... This reminds me of the distant past. The death of Michael Jackson resulted in ( almost literally) the entire internet suffering an outage.
More than that on 9/11. Every news site, online forum any online resource for news you can think of was unaccessible for hours. TV turned out to be the only news source.
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#187https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/google-electrical-incide... Three people in critical condition after Google data center 'electrical incident' in the Council Bluffs, Iowa datacenter (us-central region, I believe)
Seems unrelated. This happened ~10 hours ago.
10 hours ago we had a flood of network failures in us-central1 and saw no GCP status changes. We blindly attempted to mitigate in various ways (freezing HPAs because we thought that we were making excessive calls to external infra and getting throttled) and it resolved itself eventually. Maybe we were at fault the entire time but not seeing this issue exposed up on the GCP dashboard is infuriating.
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#188Down in Sydney. Intermittent errors when searching. How am I supposed to work? Also, I don't remember when Google Search was last down. Either google has great uptime, or I have terrible memory.
Bing works pretty well most of the time. I switched my personal primary search engine to bing around the beginning of this year after noticing a marked degradation of Google search quality. In fact, anecdotally, Bing is markedly better at narrow search results (quoted phrases, excluding or including specific words, etc). Google on the other hand is significantly better at what I’d call fuzzy searches, where you don’t…
Using bing is just coding on hard mode.
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#189https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/google-electrical-incide... Three people in critical condition after Google data center 'electrical incident' in the Council Bluffs, Iowa datacenter (us-central region, I believe)
An arc blast isn’t anything to play with! It’s an electrically charged fireball that is 4 times hotter than the sun at the point of the arc. Pretty much instant 3rd degree burns, while simultaneously getting zapped and hit with an explosive shockwave.
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#190No Worries! The Google Server in Mountain View has had a disk failed in it's RAID and therefore the sqlite-DB has only half the iops to it's disposal. A new 500GB hard disk is already in dispatch with Amazon. These are the moments why Google is a proud Amazon Prime customer.
> A new 500GB hard disk is already in dispatch with Amazon
What if in fact Amazon uses EMC gear underneath