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Comment by ekojs

2 days ago

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

> Multiple GCP products are experiencing impact due to Identity and Access Management Service Issue

IAM issue huh. The post-mortem should be interesting at least.

Ha. With all this soviet style euphemism I rather read the onion instead.

  • It’s not a euphemism - every outage, including the 99.9% that don’t end up on HN gets a postmortem document written about it, which is almost always a fascinating discussion of the technical, cultural and organisational situation that led to an unexpected bad thing happening.

    Even a few years ago senior management knew to stay the fuck out except for asking for more info.