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		myself248 on July 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google slowing hiring to “technical and critical r... > keep existing products healthy Are we talking about the same Google?

shadowgovt on July 13, 2022 | [–]

We are. Because of Google's sheer size, it does have user-visible outages, but the ratio of outages to (uptime X services supported) is pretty much best-of-industry.

... it has to be, because at their size, outages are catastrophic for people.

saagarjha on July 13, 2022 | [–]

Someone needs to keep things running for search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, …

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