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Re:I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website by User23 on Friday February 05, 2021 @09:00PM (#26043454)
This is funny because Google SRE, who are pretty good at devops, are also notorious alcoholics, or at least that's the internal meme. Judging by the prominent liquor displays I'd guess there's some truth to it.
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Re:I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website by hinkley on Friday February 05, 2021 @10:29PM (#26043860)
If you’re on call 24 hours a day that means you either have to be stone cold sober or a functioning alcoholic. On call arrangements are a really good reason for unionization. Possibly one of the better ones.
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Re:I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website by enneff on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:56AM (#26044473)
Nobody in Google SRE is on call for 24 hours. They have teams spread across time zones that rotate through the day. They also get paid more when they’re on call.
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Re:I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website by user5994461 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @07:20AM (#26046063)
Not every team is spread across the world. Not every team is staffed with enough people to have a sustainable rota.
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Re:I'm the high QA guy. Let me test your website by enneff on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:54AM (#26044467)
That has actually changed somewhat in the past few years, thankfully.
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