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by rco8786 375 days ago
Google is 10 minutes late updating their status page.

"So shady"

It's really, really hard to make a status page realtime.

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What makes you think it’s hard? We have AI generating songs and writing code, but setting up basic health checks is too much?
Yes. “Basic health checks” is not a real thing. I mean that genuinely.

> What makes you think it’s hard?

Being responsible (or rather, on a team of people responsible) for a status page of a big tech co made me think it’s hard.

“Is it down?” Is not a binary question.

An AI generated status page would be the epitome of 2025.
What makes you think it’s easy?