Google apologizes for outage, claims what we had was a failure to configurate...

[iMore.com]

Google services like Gmail, Calendar, Google+, and pretty much anything and everything that required a log in was down for a while today, and it turns out the reason for it all was a bum configuration file that got accidentally, devastatingly pushed live. Ben Treynor, VP Engineering at Google:

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