- 4 Jul, 2011 - New website of Pharmacy and Poisons Board of Hong Kong launched
- 24 Jun, 2011 - Google Health will be discontinued as a service
General
- 20 Jul, 2011 - (Video) 蘋果告侵權 谷歌力挺宏達電 (不如睇下動新聞)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DGMnTv23S4
- 14 Jul, 2011 - Postmortem : Google Java App Engine outage
- http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/07/postmortem-java-app-engine-outage-july.html
- Summary
- On July 14, 2011, beginning at 7 PM US/Pacific time (PDT/GMT-7), a subset of Java App Engine applications were affected by a service outage, which gradually increased in magnitude over time. During this period, affected applications would have experienced high latency and error rates. Approximately 1.9% of total App Engine traffic was affected at peak ...
- Root Cause and Analysis
- The main lesson learned is to improve our live traffic testing as a relatively minor bug triggered a corner case for some of our customers. The bug was in a new release of the infrastructure in the App Engine Java execution environment. During development, testing, and qualification, this bug was essentially hidden from view because it only manifested itself under specific load patterns …
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- Timeline
- July 14, 2011 - 11:30 AM US/Pacific - The new Java execution environment is released to production.
- July 14, 2011 - 5:00-6:00 PM US/Pacific - The previously scheduled Master/Slave read-only maintenance period occurred.
- July 14, 2011 - 8:00-9:30 PM US/Pacific - Monitoring shows error rates and latency for Java applications in the Master/Slave system are slowly increasing across the entire system. Investigation reveals that the new Java execution environment is malfunctioning …
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- Remediation
- Faster notification on our status site and downtime-notify mailing list
- More live traffic stress tests for new releases
- Better black box monitoring to detect small impacts more quickly
- 7 May, 2011 - Why The New Guy Can’t Code
- http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/07/why-the-new-guy-cant-code/
