> It blows my mind that Google can even have problems like this.
When you operate at Google's scale then everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Google does an amazing job providing high-availability services to billions of users, but doing so is a constant learning process; they are constantly blazing new trails for which there are no established best practices, and so there will always be unforeseen issues.
When you operate at Google's scale then everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. Google does an amazing job providing high-availability services to billions of users, but doing so is a constant learning process; they are constantly blazing new trails for which there are no established best practices, and so there will always be unforeseen issues.