Google now has a "data lake" in Paris.
Google's DC is underwater
OVH's caught fire
What's next, us-east-1 gets hit by Godzilla?
Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion
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#52A perfect example of when "cloud just means someone else's computers". It's literally a leaky abstraction.
Sure is leaky. And a cloud is a bunch of water vapour that eventually comes crashing down to earth. I'll never understand how we decided it was a good metaphor for a place we run our services.
Startlingly accurate in this case.
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#53A perfect example of when "cloud just means someone else's computers". It's literally a leaky abstraction.
Sure is leaky. And a cloud is a bunch of water vapour that eventually comes crashing down to earth. I'll never understand how we decided it was a good metaphor for a place we run our services. Startlingly accurate in this case.
After spending 5 minutes engaging with Product Managers, I am not at all surprised they landed on calling it 'the Cloud'.
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#54Google now has a "data lake" in Paris.
Google's DC is underwater OVH's caught fire What's next, us-east-1 gets hit by Godzilla?
Lol us-east-1 already went down for a day back in 2017 when an intern accidentally took down the whole DC. We could call him “Godzilla”
Source: my startup (stupidly) hosted our entire infra in us-east-1 at the time. Was a …tough day
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#56Not sure what kind of fire there was there, but once those automatic sprinkler systems get going, they are very difficult to stop.
Someone in my freshman college dorm decided to use one as a clothes hanger hook and broke the thermometer in there. The sprinkler damaged the entire floor with water and the floor below had spotty rain as well.
The fire department came and was mainly concerned about evacuating everyone rather than shutting the water off.
The water is typically chemically treated and has been sitting there for years as well -- very nasty stuff.
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#57A series of tubes would have helped with this.
Or a big truck to bring some tarps
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#58A perfect example of when "cloud just means someone else's computers". It's literally a leaky abstraction.
Sure is leaky. And a cloud is a bunch of water vapour that eventually comes crashing down to earth. I'll never understand how we decided it was a good metaphor for a place we run our services. Startlingly accurate in this case.
“the cloud” comes from old network diagrams that used cloud to mean “internet” or “unknown network”.
I think “unknown network” definitely accurately captures what hyperscalers are selling. :)
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google's DC is underwater OVH's caught fire What's next, us-east-1 gets hit by Godzilla?
Lol us-east-1 already went down for a day back in 2017 when an intern accidentally took down the whole DC. We could call him “Godzilla” Source: my startup (stupidly) hosted our entire infra in us-east-1 at the time. Was a …tough day
us-east-1 is a great place to test your application resiliency :) it's like they threw in chaosmonkey for free!