[Outages-discussion] More on the google outage Yesterday

[Lori Barfield]

what we know based on the article is that the outage was during prime
time PDT, not necessarily the originating LB config change.  in a
high-volume environment, delayed impact is a familiar phenomenon.

...lori


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:
> What better time to make LB config changes than at 0854 PST on a Monday?
>

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:33:49PM -0500, kondrak wrote:
>> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/why-gmail-went-down-google-misconfigured-chromes-sync-server/
>>
>>   Why Gmail went down: Google misconfigured Chrome's sync server
>>
>>
>>     Load balancing change in Chrome servers affected multiple Google
>>     products