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		rmc on Nov 27, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonf... How long does it take to get a sysadmin up to speed? And how much money do they lose while their websites are unavailable? What happens if YouTube.com doesn't work for a week while they get up to speed?

AlexCoventry on Nov 28, 2018 [–]

TIL keeping google running is a matter of two-a-penny UNIX sysadmin skills. The SRE book was a fraud!

rmc on Nov 30, 2018 | [–]

I never said it was easy to keep Google running. The complete opposite instead.

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