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    Mar 24, 2024 development devops team on-call

    Recently I came across a Reddit post where the author wanted to know if their on-call situation was standard or if it was out of the ordinary. The post describes a tire fire, not a production-ready software system: "Is it normal to get alerted multiple times each and every hour of oncall, and then expected to go …

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