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Victim-blaming is not appropriate here.

Google did not "likely" screw up.

To be sure, however, this is a keen lesson for every CTO.

i was responding to the article, i hadn't bothered to read railways pm as it's not super interesting, anyway, i've read it now, here: https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-a... and indeed they weren't at fault