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Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by Afforess on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:25PM (#11491369)
I'm afraid Daemon (novel) beat you to the punch. It's an excellent novel, about fairly similar situations.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6665847-daemon

Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by pavel_lishin on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:49PM (#11491586)
And a really fun read. If someone here decides to get this book, get the sequel as well - Daemon ends on kind of a cliff-hanger.
Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by mitchellhislop on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @04:14PM (#11491800)
Freedom (TM) is the sequel, and the author (Daniel Suarez) has a few other near-term what-if-this-all-goes-skynet books which are equally good.
Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by Cerium on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:24PM (#11493185)
Thank you! I didn't know there was a sequel. I really enjoyed the first book.
Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by noir_lord on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @03:36PM (#11491470)
One of my favourites, the sequels where similarly as good.
Re:Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on ... by DickingAround on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @07:18PM (#11493149)
Daemon is in that area but I'd for sure also enjoy the original proposal.