You don't have to live with outages and late nights

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 You should be great at dealing with outages, but your customers don't care. There's no medals here. No one should have incentive to be paged. There's nothing good about being in a war room for 10 days or in the holiday season in 12 hour shifts around the clock just in case something happens.

And I mean, that's an extremely common practice. It is a reprehensible terrible thing that nobody actually likes. But somehow people end up getting really proud of it.

And it makes me sad because if they'd taken even a 10th of the effort that they put into one of those seasons and spread it out. You know, you're not gonna burn people out. You're actually gonna improve your system. There's all sorts of things you can do that are far less destructive.

You don't have to take the outages. That does not have to be a part of daily life, so good luck.