A rogue piece of software, which triggered a cascading failure through Google’s data centres around the world, led to the shutdown of its Gmail system last week.
The failure, during routine maintenance at one of the company’s European data centres, was an unforeseen side-effect of a software program that was written in-house, said Nelson Mattos, vice-president of engineering.
“We’re not perfect, we make mistakes,” he said.
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