Thursday, April 1, 2010

Gmail: vowels missing

 

As per Sam Schillace, Gmail Engineering Director

Due to failure that occurred in Google's frontend web servers  in a particular data center  vowels went missing  during  routine maintenance , And it started spreading to other data centers which being prevented by creating a stopgap solution that limited the damage

One of the Google users who send the below picture as a complaint to Google 


 
But then its effect or this error is not seen every where as few data centers were effected so Google must be look in to prevention of occurrences of such situation in future as millions of business are dependent on Google trusted services.

Official Gmail Blog: Today’s vowel outage