| It's expected the outrage was due to a migration, the majority of test is design to cover new feature/bug fix. A migration is way more complex, it can touch multiple different components and at Google scale that mean different teams, it can be impossible to test this kind of migration without having a testing platforms as big as prod and if Google do it, maybe all gcp will not be enough. This "unclear" reason can hide a bigger issue like a security bug fix, or just an important migration to go somewhere. It look like covid19 hit everything, since it begins, attack increases a lot and security need to step up, really fast. Some manager have trouble to handle the full remote situation, some engineers have trouble too, all that combined can create small hole, so some outrage. How many migration they do way more complex than this one without issue? I don't think engineering culture is degrading, but shit happen and in extreme situations we see problems easier. if this outrage was due by a feature or "massive hardware" , we can be very worrie about it |