
25 Jan
2014
25 Jan
'14
5:43 p.m.
Centralized configuration is necessary. It is also the new SPOF. On Saturday, January 25, 2014, Lori Barfield <itdirector@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 25, 2014 11:05 AM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jra@baylink.com');>> wrote:
Ironically, Google's Site Reliability Engineering team *was doing an AMA when the outage hit*. Highlights:
"Nearly all of our problems are caused by changes to our systems (either human or automated), so the first step is playing the 'what is different game.'"
so here i think we have the definition of "Big," in Internet terms: the only real danger is from internal threats.
...lori
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