That alone is already more than you could expect from many other sites.

Showstopper bugs happen in any system, google is no exception here. More important is their handling and communication of the issue. And that was stellar, even despite the communication hole during the blackout.

This post mortem makes up for that faux-pas in my book. How often you get to read a detailed analysis like that from a company the size of google? With clear admission of their faults and detailed description of the steps they're going to take to resolve them?

This is the google I want to see and it gives me good faith that they'll fix their communication issues for the next downtime.

It also makes me wonder what there is to laugh about. As a customer I can not complain much about the way this was handled (I have seen much, much worse). As a competitor I'd piss my pants just again over the sheer self-confidence and professionalism google displays at this scale.

Does your company have equal monitoring and procedures in place to detect, identify and resolve a low-level bug like this in a comparable timeframe?

So, no laughing here.

I'm just saying the fact it happened so close to when I read that is _slightly_ amusing. Its a serious thing that happened, definitely, I'm just taking a step back and enjoying a small part of it.

Google has great engineering vision and they're generally a great company in the way they handle things. No questions there.