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		dmoy 46 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption ... I did 24hr-for-a-week oncall for 10+ years, do not recommend. 12-12 rotation in SRE is a lot more reasonable for humans

sandeepkd 46 days ago | [–]

Unfortunately 24hr-for-a-week seems to be default everywhere nowdays, its just not practical for serious type businesses. It just an indicator of how important is the UPTIME for a company.

markus_zhang 46 days ago | [–]

I agree. It sucks. And our schedule is actually 2 weeks in every five. One is secondary and the other is primary.

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