Comment by floydnoel

> Sometimes you need to flip a switch, and you can't spare a team working one year to refactor the whole thing.

This seems to imply that the person in charge at G was right to cause this outage... and that Google is very short-staffed and too poor to afford to do proper engineering work?

Somehow that doesn't inspire confidence in their engineering prowess. Sure seems to me that bad engineering leadership decisions is equivalent to bad engineering.