Agree, with the caveat that those who carry the 3am possibility are allowed to delegate at their own risk. i.e. the real rule is "nothing happens to prod witho

Agree, with the caveat that those who carry the 3am possibility are allowed to delegate at their own risk. i.e. the real rule is "nothing happens to prod without the agreement of those at the sharp end". That allows good devops fun to happen with fewer ops bottlenecks, if some devs can provide enough ops-chops to keep the real ops people happy. [Also note in passing that such devs are likely to be in the "second wave" of 3am people if things go sufficiently pearish.]