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Re:Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack by Forge36 on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:44PM (#22585040)
That I like. From the photos it's also obvious the rack is tipping. I'm curious why someone isn't doing a regular walkthrough. There could also be sounds of some hardware failures.

A remote SRE shouldn't need to monitor the hardware health, an on-site person should have caught this sooner.

I wonder how the person responsible for fixing/replacing the wheels felt about the follow-up

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Re:Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack by cameronbrown on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:17PM (#22585379)
Sure - the issue is we (the public reading this) don't know when this actually physically failed. It could be that SRE picked up on this before a scheduled walkthrough (of which I'm sure occurs) happened.

Disclaimer: Google employee. No knowledge of this event beyond the blog post.

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