Posts by f00bar

Google cloud wobbles as workers patch wrong routers

Hmm, not sure about measuring providers based on their status feed.

Have to say this seems a bit unfair on Google. We use them and several of their competitors and regularly note that we are told about incidents that aren't actually affecting us with a ratio of about 10:1, and have never seen a service impacting incident not be documented.

With other providers, the ratio seems to be the other way around and we only see proactive information from the provider about a subset of incidents that do affect us.

Google aren't perfect but judging providers based on the volume of their own incident reports is just penalising the better developed folks with good processes and pro-active incident reporting IMO.

Police raid CeBIT stands

End of an era

You couldn't make this up, 180 Police officers acting as the private army of an alleged rights holder to shut down stands and cart exhibitors off to the clink!. I guess CeBit was already starting to wane, but this has to be one of the final nails surely.