Google Reveals What Happened To Gmail
Yesterday, a Gmail outage slowed down the media industry for over an hour and generally just annoyed everyone who relies on the free email service for personal or business communications.
In a blog post last night, Ben Treynor, Gmail’s VP of Engineering and “site reliability czar,” said the blackout was actually a result of recent changes meant to improve service:
“This morning (Pacific Time) we took a small fraction of Gmail’s servers offline to perform routine upgrades.
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