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Re:Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Eng... by codemac on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:12PM (#38040403)
It always cracks me up how Google is simultaneously the most web-based company in the world, but their internal political landscape was (Infra, Search, Ads) > everything else. This leads to infra swe writing stupid CLIs all day, rather than having any literal buttons. Things were changing a lot by the time I left though.

I do think Google should be more open about their internal outages. This one in particular was very famous internally.

Re:Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Eng... by dilyevsky on Friday October 27, 2023 @12:43PM (#38040774)
We also avoided some outages by running one-off scripts fleet-wide so it cuts both ways
Re:Lessons Learned from Twenty Years of Site Reliability Eng... by throwawaaarrgh on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:34PM (#38043558)
Every large enterprise is internally a tire fire.