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Terrible Timing: Google Reliability Team Launches Reddit Q&A Just as Gmail Goes Down

Advised to try turning it off and back on

By David Griner

January 24, 2014

In a truly painful moment of unfortunate coincidence, Google's Site Reliability Engineering Team launched a Reddit AMA ("Ask Me Anything") this afternoon, just as Gmail went offline for users around the world.

David Griner

David Griner is Adweek's international editor and host of the Adweek podcast, "Yeah, That's Probably an Ad."

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