Google Cloud Engine outage caused by 'large backlog of queued mutations'

Ad giant added memory to servers, restarted, watched things get worse ... is on top of things again now

A 14-hour Google cloud platform outage that we missed in the shadow of last week's G Suite outage was caused by a failure to scale, an internal investigation has shown.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
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