> infinitely auto-scalable platform where we don't have to do any devops or carry a pager
You never know what you don't measure and test
You never know what you don't measure and test
Load balancers: Scale to millions of users seamlessly. No warming up, no tickets, ...
PubSub: You can send the whole Internet 10 times in a day through it. Google does that every day
Big Query: Its equivalent to spinning up a 100+ node cluster in a matter of seconds and it can process data at speeds of GB's of data per sec, I heard couple of use cases where the user was able to process at ~ 50 GB/s
Kubernetes: 1000's of nodes running 100's of thousands of containers.
Can't beat that!
Funny you should mention that. :) I work at Google on PerfKit Benchmarker (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker). Not only can you measure and test GCP (and other clouds), but we're trying to make it very easy for you to do so!
(PKB doesn't have a benchmark for App Engine yet, though. Sorry.)
If we're down there is plenty of other alerting to notify us (mostly through Slack). That said, there isn't much we can do other than wait for Google to fix it.
It is part of the trade off that we have to consider, I'm paying Google for devops instead of paying a team to do it for me. If you've ever had to hire a 24/7 support/devops staff, it is a much easier hiring proposition to just rely on Google to do that for us.
IE. "Cloud ops"