Google has released an explanation for a widespread outage that hit its email service, Gmail, and stopped its Chrome web browser from syncing bookmarks, extensions and apps.
There was also some disruption to Google Documents and Drive.
A Google engineer took to the company's developer forums to explain:
“It’s due to a backend service that sync servers depend on becoming overwhelmed, and sync servers responding to that by telling all clients to throttle all data types,” he said, noting that the “throttling” messed things up in the browser and caused it to crash.(Source: BGR)
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