Scaling & Stability Concerns at Google Scale
Include:
- Thieves: People don’t only like to steal data, but sometimes the machines it’s stored in.
- Drunken hunters: You know those large red balls placed on power lines so low-flying aircraft know they’re there? It turns out some hunters like to shoot at them, which isn’t good for keeping the power on.
- Sharks: They’ve been known to bite the fiberoptic cables that traverse oceans.
(Via GigaOm)
