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I'm not sure whether to be impressed or terrified that Google can -- and, apparently, does -- roll out updates across their entire server farm in a matter of a minute or two.



"Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes." from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo...


Okay, it sounds like it actually takes 13 to 15 minutes to roll out an update across the entire farm. That feels more like what I was expecting.


Compare: "How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time" http://www.icir.org/vern/papers/cdc-usenix-sec02/cdc.pdf




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