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Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code

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Re: Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code

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Post by farisjarrah »

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #3

It sure feels like there have been quite a few big outages this summer (Google in particular). I wonder if they are getting sloppy or this is just bad luck?

My gut reaction is that many companies make the majority of their income/deals during the fall/winter/spring (think back to school shopping, Christmas, re-signing contracts for the next year, tax season, etc.) Thus, many companies try to make major infrastructure changes during the summer, when there will be a slightly smaller negative impact on the business's bottom line in case something does go wrong.

Re: Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code

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Post by swedish_mafia »

bmurphy1976 wrote: post #3

It sure feels like there have been quite a few big outages this summer (Google in particular). I wonder if they are getting sloppy or this is just bad luck?

Maybe memorising algorithms from a textbook does not translate to great system engineering and SRE skills? Who would have thought.

Re: Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code

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Post by derefr »

farisjarrah wrote: post #6
bmurphy1976 wrote: post #3

It sure feels like there have been quite a few big outages this summer (Google in particular). I wonder if they are getting sloppy or this is just bad luck?

My gut reaction is that many companies make the majority of their income/deals during the fall/winter/spring (think back to school shopping, Christmas, re-signing contracts for the next year, tax season, etc.) Thus, many companies try to make major infrastructure changes during the summer, when there will be a slightly smaller negative impact on the business's bottom line in case something does go wrong.

Another way to think about that is that PMs spend three quarters of the year distracted by meetings with external clients, and only have summer to actually ride their teams on implementing the things they've negotiated.
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