Wow.Everything I've read and heard indicates that Google has built a global, fault-tolerant, self-healing, low-cost file system and server cluster, designed by the best PhDs in computer science money can buy.Someone once said "Complex systems fail in complex ways."/richOn Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Harper, Chris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Anyone notice Google and the ‘net in general was a little slow earlier today?
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/14/google-says-googlefail-outages-are-over/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/google-confirms-problems-accessing-its-services/?hp
Just goes to show you how intertwined everything is, and Google is right at the center.
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