Ex-Googler: I once took down Gmail's spam system for 20 minutes, and Urs read the post-mortem
peterjliu · x · 2026-11-13
A former Google engineer (peterjliu) shares that he once took the Gmail spam system down for 20 minutes — an event so rare at Google that Urs read the post-mortem. Quoting another ex-Googler who says he never saw 'Gmail and Calendar down' in 7 years there, with a passive-aggressive jab at Microsoft's recent outage.
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