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Of course it shouldn't have happened. But if you run infrastructure as complex as this on the scale that they do, and with the agility that they need, then it was bound to happen eventually. No matter how good you are, there is always some extremely unlikely chain of events that will lead to a catastrophic out. Given enough time, that chain will eventually happen.




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