[myself248]

> keep existing products healthy

Are we talking about the same Google?

[shadowgovt]

We are. Because of Google's sheer size, it does have user-visible outages, but the ratio of outages to (uptime X services supported) is pretty much best-of-industry.

... it has to be, because at their size, outages are catastrophic for people.

[saagarjha]

Someone needs to keep things running for search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail, …