Thank you for keeping systems available and safe. I've been there many times in the past, including having to fly at the last minute to a non-internet-connected data center in NJ to babysit an emergency production bug fix that took the entire holiday to create, install, verify, and monitor.
Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays
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#3Yes, absolutely thanks to all who keep our world running when no one is looking. To keep the yule log on Youtube, to keep our christmas tree lights on, to keep a fresh glass of water from the tap, warm natural gas to keep the freezing cold outside etc. Thank you for keeping society ticking away :)
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#4My wakeup alarm this morning was 9am when OpsGenie let me know I'm on-call today. Praying for peace.
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#5In a similar vein, I'm grateful for the people who maintain the foundational pieces of our digital world that often go unnoticed like date & time systems.
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#6Big up the on call heroes! Hope you're getting paid well, hope you get no red lights on the bug hotlines.
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#7> Thank you for keeping systems available and safe.
theres that word "safe" again. What systems are dangerous otherwise? Do you mean like traffic lights or something? The API serving ads to your mobile game isn't dangerous.
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#8On call till 31st, so please don't hit refresh too much this days ;-)
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#9Two live video productions, including one on the evening of 31st. I managed to push back on last minute infra/workflow changes (:
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#10Thanks, been there many seasons, and same to you all.