2 years ago

Google Cloud Reliability Advocate https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemcghee/ once shared an essential truth that the company’s https://thenewstack.io/google-sre-site-reliability-engineering-at-a-global-scale/ have learned. Sooner or later that perfect storm of oddball conditions triggers “complex, emergent modes of failure that aren’t seen elsewhere,” McGhee wrote in https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/management-tools/sre-keeps-digging-to-prevent-problems. “Thus, SREs within Google have become adept at developing systems to track failures deep into the many layers of our infrastructure…

Google engineers had experienced a problem on servers for the frequently-accessed content cached on Google’s low-latency edge network.

McGhee recently co-authored https://sre.google/resources/practices-and-processes/enterprise-roadmap-to-sre/ along with Google cloud solutions architect James Brookbank (published earlier this year by O’Reilly).