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All the access to the services is remote, but I'd say having the entire team in the same room does help coordinate incident response.



Agreed. And I'd hope that their plan B of "get the whole team on Hangouts" isn't met with connection / auth issues. Kinda feel bad for the googlers. Hope they get this right.


When I was there they had an IRC network for this reason. I hope they still do. Not quite the same as VoIP but fewer dependencies...


That's why the network folks at Google and AWS use IRC for just that purpose. Simple, no external dependencies, just works.




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