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The outage began 19 October at 23:08 PDT; Google called it a power event in a single zone. Per the Neowin headline, HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and Equifax were hit.
An SRE in the thread says multi-zone setups exist everywhere but zone failure is almost never rehearsed.
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In today’s GitHub Trending: Immich (self-hosted photo and video management), Tailscale (WireGuard networking), microservices-demo (a Kubernetes and Istio sample), awesome-systematic-trading (quant-trading resources), and Awesome Lists (SOC/CERT references).
The surprise is that the most useful entries are not competing products. They are working systems and maps of accumulated practice, where adoption depends on clarity, maintenance, and the limits the community has already found.
Around March, Google told Meta it couldn't supply the full Gemini capacity Meta had tried to purchase, delaying some of Meta's internal AI work. Meta then asked staff to be more efficient with tokens. Other Google Cloud clients were squeezed too.
The thread's flip: this isn't Google restricting a rival's access, it's a compute shortage dressed as a restriction. And the buried oddity is Meta, which builds Llama, leaning on a competitor's model in the first place.
