Episode 27: What it Took for Google to Make Changes: Outages and Mean Tweets

September 12, 2018 00:29:04
Episode 27: What it Took for Google to Make Changes: Outages and Mean Tweets
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Episode 27: What it Took for Google to Make Changes: Outages and Mean Tweets

Sep 12 2018 | 00:29:04

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Show Notes

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) turned off a customer that it thought was doing something out of bounds. This led to an Internet outrage, and GCP tried to explain itself and prevent the problem in the future.

Today, we’re talking to Daniel Compton, an independent software consultant who focuses on Clojure and large-scale systems. He’s currently building Deps, a private Maven repository service. As a third-party observer, we pick Daniel’s brain about the GCP issue, especially because he wrote a post called, Google Cloud Platform - The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It’s Mostly Good).

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