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Says something that they know the what , where , when , and why , but the still don't (or won't) prevent it.
It's a matter of cost. It's a temporary spike of traffic far outside of average use. In order to handle it, they'd need a lot of resources that just aren't justifiable for the rest of the year. You seem similar things when places sell highly desired items in online stores.
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Also, summer interns. A friend who worked at FB said outages there go up markedly when interns start pushing to prod.
> interns start pushing to prod hey everybody, I spotted the problem! I'll keep an eye on my mailbox for the giant consulting fee that I assume is enroute.
Google often has a outage or two around this time of the year when all the US schools come back and millions of students log in at the same time.
I didn't think I would laugh that hard coming in here and reading these comments, but here we are. I can virtually guarantee that the following things are not the root of the problem:
* Lack of compute/networking/storage
* Incompetence of employees
* Back to school traffic spikes
* Just about anything else here
My $0.02. these are almost always due to bad roll outs, usually configuration changes. But I've been wrong countless times before!
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It's a matter of cost. It's a temporary spike of traffic far outside of average use. In order to handle it, they'd need a lot of resources that just aren't justifiable for the rest of the year. You seem similar things when places sell highly desired items in online stores.
They're a bleeding cloud provider. I think they can temporarily scale up a bit.
Temporarily shut down other people's services to favor their own?
Disclosure: Former Googler I didn't think I would laugh that hard coming in here and reading these comments, but here we are. I can virtually guarantee that the following things are not the root of the problem: * Lack of compute/networking/storage * Incompetence of employees * Back to school traffic spikes * Just about anything else here My $0.02. these are almost always due to bad roll outs, usually configuration ch…
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Maybe memorising algorithms from a textbook does not translate to great system engineering and SRE skills? Who would have thought.
I'm glad you have a good handle on the data about the predictive power Google interviews have about the individuals. Can you share the data?
This is because they have a far better and complete platform, and it appears to be better engineered too with fewer of the downtime incidents we’ve been seeing at the other vendors.
Why do you suspect this is? Let me tell you. Amazon had better people. Full stop.
Disclosure: Former Googler I didn't think I would laugh that hard coming in here and reading these comments, but here we are. I can virtually guarantee that the following things are not the root of the problem: * Lack of compute/networking/storage * Incompetence of employees * Back to school traffic spikes * Just about anything else here My $0.02. these are almost always due to bad roll outs, usually configuration ch…