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Gmail Services Global Outage
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Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the first SRE book [1]: "The error budget stems from the observation that 100% is the wrong reliability target for basically everything (pacemakers and anti-lock brakes being notable exceptions). In general, for any software service or system, 100% is not the right reliability target because no user can tell the difference between a system being 100% available and 99.999% available. There are many other systems…
Please, please stop using mono space for quotes. It’s hard to read on small screens. Just > is better.
It’s not hard. It’s actually impossible. I agree, just use >.
If I worked for YC as a HN mod I would literally spend a bit of time every day to review as many mono space-using comments I could every day and edit them to use > instead.
Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#63Global does not mean "affecting absolutely everyone around the globe (or disc, for the flatearthers out there)". Affecting a "significant subset of users" that are spread around every continent is global and it shows it's not one specific DC, link, or ISP that was affected. The fact that you didn't experience the disruption means absolutely nothing and it's ridiculous to even suggest it does. Especially since there a…
Global outage implies everyone on the planet. Outages globally would imply what you've stated.
Even if you think "outages globally" and "global outage" are obviously two different things (maybe, but I don't think it's obvious), this seems like a fairly pedantic distinction.
Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given how many services it affected and the mention of 404 errors, I would suspect a GFE bug or bad configuration that started rolling out worldwide (hence the geographically diverse, but not 100% spread of the issue). A decade ago, Tuesdays were a special day for GFEs, but that hasn't been the case for years now. Perhaps it's just the Tuesday curse that persists. :-) My money is either on that or the static content…
GFE?
https://medium.com/@jerub/the-production-environment-at-goog...
> The browser connects to the HTTP server on this IP. This server (named the Google Frontend, or GFE) is a reverse proxy that terminates the TCP connection (2). The GFE looks up which service is required (web search, maps
Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given how many services it affected and the mention of 404 errors, I would suspect a GFE bug or bad configuration that started rolling out worldwide (hence the geographically diverse, but not 100% spread of the issue). A decade ago, Tuesdays were a special day for GFEs, but that hasn't been the case for years now. Perhaps it's just the Tuesday curse that persists. :-) My money is either on that or the static content…
GFE?
"Google Front End", the process directly between the open internet and internal Google services.
Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the first SRE book [1]: "The error budget stems from the observation that 100% is the wrong reliability target for basically everything (pacemakers and anti-lock brakes being notable exceptions). In general, for any software service or system, 100% is not the right reliability target because no user can tell the difference between a system being 100% available and 99.999% available. There are many other systems…
Please, please stop using mono space for quotes. It’s hard to read on small screens. Just > is better.
Why not use italics instead? How does the ">" help? You can put it at the beginning of the paragraph, but lines get re-flowed so you can't put it at the beginning of lines.
Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
From the first SRE book [1]: "The error budget stems from the observation that 100% is the wrong reliability target for basically everything (pacemakers and anti-lock brakes being notable exceptions). In general, for any software service or system, 100% is not the right reliability target because no user can tell the difference between a system being 100% available and 99.999% available. There are many other systems…
Please, please stop using mono space for quotes. It’s hard to read on small screens. Just > is better.
Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#68Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#69I am not having any problems accessing Gmail.
However, I'm now worried that I might not be receiving email that I otherwise should be...
Re: Gmail Services Global Outage
#70It's fixed now. Not sure the cause, but it seems to have only impacted GSutie related services? (not global to Google)