And it is interesting, because as far as we know, it is all caused by the one extra second. It's a mini-Y2K. If you saw Google's solution to it, it is easy to see, that is not at all intuitive, and that bugs like this will continue to happen.
There were outages yesterday when Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud in northern Virginia lost power. That one took out Pinterest and Netflix. As a multitude of sites are down again today, I agree, this is interesting.
And it is interesting, because as far as we know, it is all caused by the one extra second. It's a mini-Y2K. If you saw Google's solution to it, it is easy to see, that is not at all intuitive, and that bugs like this will continue to happen.