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Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc... by somebodythere on Monday November 11, 2019 @10:31PM (#21511305)
I'm confused, what is a SWE going to do during a 16 hour shift about their building being on fire?
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Re:Makers, Don't Let Yourself Be Forced into the 'Manager Sc... by morelisp on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @05:50PM (#21530591)
"Back in the day" we used to have physical machines places. A DC catching fire (or flooding, getting hit by lightning, or etc. etc.) meant "manual failover" and a day of restoring backups.

(And that was best case, if your infrastructure and deployment scripts were up-to-date. Most people's weren't; probably the ratio is only slightly better today.)

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