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My experience is that it often is more expensive when you actually account for lost development time.
> By spreading the load across the dev team I can automatically get a high bus factor and 24/7 hour on-call rotation.
... and my experience of this is that I'll never do it, ever, because of how it affects retention.
> Obviously once your company is large enough it's different but for small teams/companies it is an important factor.
Most of my clients have been small to medium sized, and I see the cost tip in teams with as few as 3-4 people at times.
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My experience is that it often is more expensive when you actually account for lost development time.
> By spreading the load across the dev team I can automatically get a high bus factor and 24/7 hour on-call rotation.
... and my experience of this is that I'll never do it, ever, because of how it affects retention.
> Obviously once your company is large enough it's different but for small teams/companies it is an important factor.
Most of my clients have been small to medium sized, and I see the cost tip in teams with as few as 3-4 people at times.