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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Google explains Thursday’s massive Cloud outage.

Yesterday, a global outage on the Google Cloud platform knocked out Google Home, Spotify, Snapchat, and even some Cloudflare features, and today the company released a mini incident report as it continues to investigate.

For Cloudflare’s part, its report says the Google failure took out a central data store for one of its services.

Google:

From our initial analysis, the issue occurred due to an invalid automated quota update to our API management system which was distributed globally, causing external API requests to be rejected. To recover we bypassed the offending quota check, which allowed recovery in most regions within 2 hours. However, the quota policy database in us-central1 became overloaded, resulting in much longer recovery in that region.

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Emma Roth
Emma Roth
The Nook app has started linking to outside purchases on iOS, too.

Barnes & Noble’s Nook app has joined Kindle and Spotify in making it easier to buy e-books and audiobooks on the iPhone. A recent update has added a new “buy on BN.com” option to the iOS app, as spotted earlier by Good e-Reader.

The change comes after a judge ordered Apple to lift restrictions on web links and outside payment options, a decision that a higher court upheld earlier this month.

Barnes & Noble NOOK APP for iOS can buy books in the app

[goodereader.com]

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