Friday, 24 January 2014
Google Responds to Massive Gmail Outage
Friday's Google outage that down Gmail, Google+, Calendar and Documents for users round the world was caused by a software system bug, in keeping with an announcement discharged by Google Fri evening.
The offender, same Google, was an inside software system bug that ultimately caused users' knowledge requests to be unheeded, that then caused errors at intervals Gmail and different Google services.
"An internal system that generates configurations — basically, data that tells different systems a way to behave — encountered a software system bug ANd generated an incorrect configuration," same mount Treynor, Google's VP of Engineering, on the company's web log. "The incorrect configuration was sent to measure services over ensuing quarter-hour, caused users’ requests for his or her knowledge to be unheeded, and people services, in turn, generated errors."
Google apologized for the outage, which, it according, lasted twenty five to fifty five minutes and affected as several as 100% of users. the corporate conjointly same they're within the method of golf shot systems in situ to stop any similar issues within the future.
The outage began Fri at 10:55 a.m. PST, in keeping with Google. The explosive crash of multiple Google services right away caused AN AN uproar on Twitter, wherever affected users quickly pointed the finger at Google.
Yahoo was concisely concerned within the Twitter firestorm once it dissed Google during a tweet, that was eventually removed. Yahoo later apologized from a similar Twitter account language the tweet "reflected unhealthy judgment."
Elsewhere on social media, AN sadly regular Reddit AMA (Ask American state Anything) with Google's web site responsibleness Engineering team was happening throughout the outage, although the team declined to comment directly on the continued outage throughout the AMA.
