[esprehn]

There are pretty different uptime and stability requirements for a social product and web search (or other Google products like Gmail). When news feed is broken life moves on, when those products break many people can't get any work done at all.

One of Google's major cultural challenges is imposing the move slow and carefully culture on everything though.

[zeroonetwothree]

It’s not considered ok for newsfeed to break. It would be a massive issue that would command the full attention of everyone.

[esprehn]

And yet folks who are on call for it say things like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40826497