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user5994461 on Aug 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Plenty of large sites down; Reddit.com, GN...

Site reliability is a new fancy name for the sucker who is on call.

They will change career after being forced to work on week ends and holidays a few times. Incidentally, today is a Sunday AND the most taken holiday of the year.

throwawaymath on Aug 12, 2018 [–]

Not all site reliability engineers have a bad work life balance.

user5994461 on Aug 12, 2018 | [–]

The ones at AWS and Google, maybe not.

The ones who are the single "random DevOps dude" at a small company trying to emulate AWS and Google, do have zero balance.

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