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It’s just the org chart being reflected in their stack architecture. There is a group responsible for machine health. That group doesn’t run any services. There is a group that operates GFEs. They don’t own any machines.


Does that imply a SaaS-based revision to Conway's law?

(GFEs are a reverse proxy that terminates TCP for Google. https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/production-... )




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