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Re:Google outage – resolved by gfitz on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:20AM (#25416515)
The nature of this downtime is quite severe. How are Googlers resolving this if their internal communications are down?
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Re:Google outage – resolved by BossingAround on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:27AM (#25416582)
There are other ways to deliver packets... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
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Re:Google outage – resolved by h43k3r on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:15AM (#25417104)
There is IRC as backup
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Re:Google outage – resolved by Gigablah on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:28AM (#25416595)
I recall that their SREs use IRC?
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Re:Google outage – resolved by q3k on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:48AM (#25416835)
Yep. At least some of the teams do.
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Re:Google outage – resolved by geogra4 on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:40AM (#25418046)
not hangouts? allo? duo?
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Re:Google outage – resolved by q3k on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:49PM (#25422287)
I don't think Allo and Duo are products designed for use in teams/organizations, or marketing themselves as such.
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Re:Google outage – resolved by geogra4 on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:39AM (#25416738)
Good ole phone calls is my guess
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