[sylvainkalache]

I am the one behind this part of the curriculum, I've been SRE/DevOps for the last past 5 years of my life. The project that the article refers to is about uptime, better uptime means better grade.

We partnered with companies such a PagerDuty, Wavefront so that they have tools to help them keeping their uptime, we are guiding them to put everything in place so that their website/servers never go down. We never call them at 3AM and we actually never call them at all. However we do have challenges where we simulate hardware failure, traffic spike...

Just to make things clear: the goal is not to wake up students are 3 AM but to get them ready for production and this involve being on call and possibly getting paged at 3AM.