They could be dead you know. I wouldn't joke around, we're all in the same business after all. I'm sure the SRE's didn't decide who rented space in their DC.
These DCs were built by Yandex for Yandex
They do. Yandex has been holding periodic "datacenter offline" exercises for a while.
I’m afraid it’s going to be a popular runbook if ppl don’t get their shit together quickly.