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Even trying to implement solid SRE practices you'll still have inevitable problems, incidents and other disruptions. I agree what most people consider inevitab
by vasco 4y ago
Even trying to implement solid SRE practices you'll still have inevitable problems, incidents and other disruptions.
I agree what most people consider inevitable isn't, but your position is too extreme if you've ever been in a real company. Not everything can be predicted by an error budget, and in most non-google companies "stop deploying until you got your budget back" isn't going to allow your business to operate fast enough or flexibly enough. Reliability isn't all in business.
- izacus 4y agoThat's correct - but this argument is more often than not used to prop up "inevitability" of overtime that neither inevitable, nor necessary. Yes, bad stuff happens - but having it once per two years or once per few months as the article implies it a different scale and the MOST important part of it is to stop treating it as normal, required and necessary. Also, Stripe has 14 offices globally. That's already a size where you can have work-time rotation for those "late night" problems. Which then stop being late night problems. Again. Not inevitable.