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> "On another note, I hate posts from Rachel." I don't but then again I spent years on call for a couple of critical services. SREs / sysadmins are the people
by ThrowawayR2 7y ago
> "On another note, I hate posts from Rachel."
I don't but then again I spent years on call for a couple of critical services. SREs / sysadmins are the people who have to work overtime on evenings or weekends to restore services when an incident causes downtime, whether accidental or caused by foul-ups by the development team. After a few years of that, having a rather low opinion of colleagues whose routine bad practices or behavior risks downtime for critical services is more than forgivable in my book.
- Rapzid 7y agoHaving been in an SRE-like role my entire engineering career I can empathize with the mindset. I've built pub cloud and provided tier(N) support for it and managed hosting having to fix screw-ups from OTHER companies engineering teams, as well as working in-house roles with SRE responsibilities. It's an easy mindset to get into and a blog is certainly a valid place to blow off some steam IMHO.. But when you have the knowledge AND access to fix all of your own mistakes, it's easy to forget that everyone makes mistakes and to empathize with the every-engineer. It can be a toxic mindset to let seep into the workplace; better saved for the pub :)