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0 pointsestsauver6y ago0 comments

My hope is that we can be kind and decent to other people even in moments of stress. Take two very different example comments:

"This is a frustrating outage for us, a huge part of the attraction in Google Cloud has been the premise that we get the underlying reliability of Google's infrastructure. If we'd known what the reliability of Google in practice this year would look like, we might have stayed with AWS."

and

"Why are the stupid SRE's at Google even paid such absurd numbers if they can't even go a whole month without multiple hours of downtime."

Criticizing companies is find, just please remember there are real people there.

"Kind and Decent" doesn't seem like a high bar. If "please be kind and decent" is too much of an ask, I pray we never work together.

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maximente6y ago· 2 in thread

> This is a frustrating outage for us, a huge part of the attraction in Google Cloud has been the premise that we get the underlying reliability of Google's infrastructure. If we'd known what the reliability of Google in practice this year would look like, we might have stayed with AWS.

if this statement you quoted is something you're not comfortable with, i have a hard time believing you have ever encountered criticism in your life.

estsauverOP6y ago

In case it wasn't clear, that's a perfectly fine criticism. I edited the above to make it clear that strikes me as totally reasonable.

maximente6y ago

ah ok, the first time i read it, i thought you meant both were not appropriate, but now i see it was meant to contrast

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