I don't know if other Gmail users had anything similar but a couple of days ago I wasn't able to mark messages as spam in Gmail for almost 24 hours. I could happily switch between viewing the Inbox, labels, and I could delete messages. But I couldn't report them as spam. All I saw was this error:
Fast forward to today. I was just unable to log in to Gmail for several hours. Which happened to be a good thing for my productivity, I guess, but nevertheless quite a bit of downtime from one of the world's major email service providers.
I'm not mad at Google or anything. I'm thankful for Google for providing free webmail accounts with a smooth user experience. I'm just wondering what's happening behind the scenes because it seems that these glitches have become more common lately.
I guess this is just a reminder that Gmail is still officially in beta--with god knows how many users worldwide.
It's not "Java applications" that have a tendency to become more and more complex--it's all systems that are being developed that have that tendency.
More than the programming language, what influences the degradation of the quality (maintainability) of a codebase is the people doing the work.
Annoyed, yes. Worried, not really.