Last week, Google suffered a temporary outage, affecting some of the world’s most popular online services, including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Drive. It was down only an hour, but the outage temporarily halted online work for many and illustrated the perils of modern online existence over-reliance on the search engine giant.
The event served as a timely reminder of the fragility of the underlying infrastructure that runs the web. It showcased just how impaired we all are when...