Before the philosophy of DevOps, developers would build products, services, and infrastructures , but the responsibility for maintaining them would shift to operators, aka system or IT admins. The DevOps philosophy removes the boundary between Operations and Development teams, making system reliability a shared responsibility of all parties.

Over the past decade, multiple scientific studies have confirmed what we in DevOps have known for ages: Being on-call is a pain! But just how bad is it?

The holiday season has just begun, and many of you are going to be taking time off to be with friends and family. Unfortunately, someone from your team has to be on-call during major dates such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. Thankfully, with PagerTree, you can easily manage your holiday on-call schedule so you can spend less time worrying about on-call and more time with loved ones.