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> Google's Chubby lock service, written using paxos, has such high availability in it's global instance, that the SRE's introduce artificial mini outages, just so dependent services don't assume it has a 100% SLA

That's fascinating. Got more information on that?

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I think there was something about it in the Google SRE book?

https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/

See "The Global Chubby Planned Outage" on this page:

https://sre.google/sre-book/service-level-objectives/

Oh. I had read the book before, but that snipped simply disappeared from my mind.

Thank you!

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