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		0x445442 on Feb 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re an SRE > and the SRE teams were geographically distributed to cover the 24 hour period during local daytime Management problem number 1. These people should not be responsible for the running system. > nobody likes to be paged in the middle of the night Excellent motivation for the people that should be responsible for the running system to build quality software.

SpicyLemonZest on Feb 2, 2020 | [–]

Why would randomly waking your engineers up in the middle of the night be an excellent motivation strategy?

iso1631 on Feb 3, 2020 | | [–]

It's an incentive to not release stuff that breaks in the middle of the night.

On the flip side that can lead to slower releases, or more expensive solutions

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