News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region. Parent comment

Re:Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-E... by malfist on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:54PM (#45688460)
Amazon generally treats on call as a full time job. Generally engineers who are on call are expected to only be on call. No feature work.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-E... by tidbits on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:47PM (#45688967)
It's very team/org dependent and I would say that's generally not the case. In 6 years I have only had 1 team out of 3 where that was true. The other two teams I was expected to juggle feature work with oncall work. Same for most teams I interacted with.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-E... by malfist on Friday October 24, 2025 @11:55PM (#45701262)
Interesting, I've been here nearly that long and every team I've worked with its generally the way I described. Do engineers always do that? No. But it is the expectation
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-E... by markus_zhang on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:03PM (#45688562)
That's actually pretty good.
[ Parent | on HN ]