Google Outage in Europe
There were outages around the same time last year. Somebody in the HN thread commented back then that the employees evaluation and promotion window ends around december/eoy, thus more releases are made.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages</a>