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by user5994461 2874 days ago
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.
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throwawaymath 2874 days ago
Not all site reliability engineers have a bad work life balance.
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user5994461 2874 days ago
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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