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At my first job we had a guy who could spot incidents coming on the monitoring dashboard before they happened. He never managed to explain or even understand what he was looking for and no-one else picked it up, but he would just see something that made him say things were odd, and most of the time we'd get an alert shortly after.
> we didn’t have a formal on-call rotation yet. That was a deliberate decision, since being on-call is painful, and the team was good about just collectively keeping an eye out for urgent alerts. That seems like a terrible solution. Yeah, being on-call is painful, but at least I know beforehand when I'll be on-call and get compensated for it. Always being expected to keep an eye out for urgent alerts just sucks all a…
As always it’s easy to overlook the insider threat. Grammatically dubious extortion emai? Bitcoin ransom? Did it not occur to you that the cat was the one behind the attack ?
And I often wonder if on call is justifiable “because you make more money than most professionals”.
as with most roles, I think it is negotiable. You have your professional leverage, expected pay and grit. you need to balance these things. Also, if you can get an equivalent role with less requirements such as being on call, then I guess it is just a question of grabbing it!
Ah, the days before ChatGPT!
On a more serious note, do you think there will ever be a way to stop ddos attacks once and for all?
While all threats are bad, ddos is the most lame type of attacks there is; no special skill or knowledge are needed, just load a script or, heck, pay someone who'll execute it for you as a service.
... that you know of
It's so easy to crush ddos with token buckets that usually the only thing I need my cat to wake me for is when my Discord gets raided.
I think this would be like a firewall or ingress thing that would drop packets that resulted in excess load before they make it to the application server.
Maybe the phone was silent but still flashing a screen? Mine does that in that mode. At my first job we had a guy who could spot incidents coming on the monitoring dashboard before they happened. He never managed to explain or even understand what he was looking for and no-one else picked it up, but he would just see something that made him say things were odd, and most of the time we'd get an alert shortly after.