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@KentonVarda: Let's see how many Google services go down next week... Kenton Varda (@KentonVarda) Once when I w...

Let's see how many Google services go down next week...

Kenton Varda (@KentonVarda)

Once when I was at Google, Jeff Dean went on vacation for two weeks, long enough for his Kerberos credentials to expire, and that's when we realized that many production services depended on a cron job running on his desktop. (Specifically, the "global Protobuf DB".)

— https://nitter.net/KentonVarda/status/1871797701400310002#m