Google’s site reliability senseis offer to train you in their mystical ways
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/03/15/google_cloud_mission_critical_services/
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Offered only to customers of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the new “Mission Critical Services (MCS) for GCP” is “built on the same methodologies we use in support of our own Google Cloud infrastructure, including a set of core concepts and methods that our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams have developed over the past two decades.”
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While the morality of the extensive data-harvesting, ad-slinging, and video-spewing machines those teams built continues to be debated, their reliability is seldom challenged. Google clearly has wisdom to impart (and indeed literally [2]wrote the book on SRE).
The search and ads giant seems to aspire to a mentoring role, rather than driving your systems.
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“Unlike many premium services in the market that offload the entire burden of mission-critical support to the cloud vendor, MCS is a consultative offering in which we partner with you on a journey toward readiness,” says Google’s [4]announcement . That partnership sees Google “partner with you on a step-by-step process through assessment, remediation, and onboarding, where we bring your architecture, control, observability and measurement into Google-standard Mission Critical Operations mode.”
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Google sticks around to “drive continuous improvement of your environment through our biannual tune-ups, architecture reviews, and other ongoing check-ins.”
“Our highest tier of engineers will have deep familiarity with your workloads, allowing us to monitor, prevent, and mitigate impacts quickly,” Google states, claiming it will offer “the fastest response in the industry.”
“For example, if you have any issues--24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week--we’ll spin up a live, war room with our experts within five minutes.”
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None of this is free, of course. You’ll need to be a Premium Support customer, Google’s top tier of Cloud support. Premium Support already offers 15-minute response time for priority one cases. However, it appears that Google is trying to get you into a state in which you need less and less support, because you have adopted Google’s own reliability practices. ®
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[2] https://sre.google/books/
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[4] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/introducing-google-cloud-mission-critical-services
[5] https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/06/devops_no_ops_less_ops/
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[7] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
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“For example, if you have any issues--24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week--we’ll spin up a live, war room with our experts within five minutes.”
Move to GCP to take advantage of the reliability offering?
Secret Source Sauce .....
..... Still Remains Something of an Elusive Enigmatic Resource for Googling though? :-)
Now, if that was/is in any way good and reliable, and not totally reliant upon and also vulnerable to Google knowing better than you exactly what your business and services are all about, which surely it must be pimping/pumping and dumping with such a GCPMCS facility [Google Cloud Platform Mission Critical Services], one imagines the US Department of Defence and DARPA would be beating a clear path to their door and granting them the likes of a $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative (JEDI) contract ......... :-) which for all we are likely to know, they may already have done or are currently deciding on probably doing to provide such a novelty as much help as it needs to succeed.
Such would certainly be right up DARPA's street and fully consistent with their raison d'être.
journey toward readiness
Sounds a bit like a religious teaching. But depending on the t&c's , could be a very useful service. With the state of IT only a fool thinks they have all the bases coverd.