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It always cracks me up how Google is simultaneously the most web-based company in the world, but their internal political landscape was (Infra, Search, Ads) > everything else. This leads to infra swe writing stupid CLIs all day, rather than having any literal buttons. Things were changing a lot by the time I left though.

I do think Google should be more open about their internal outages. This one in particular was very famous internally.



Every large enterprise is internally a tire fire.


We also avoided some outages by running one-off scripts fleet-wide so it cuts both ways




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