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by closeparen 2457 days ago
>In well-run organizations, when there is a regular, ongoing need for evening or overnight coverage, it’s provided by people scheduled to work during those hours, who are selected and trained to be able to handle most situations on their own.

It's decently common to have engineering teams oncall for their own services, with a regular PagerDuty shift as part of the job. In that case 5-7 alerts per week is pretty healthy. It sucks that you need to keep your work laptop with you and stay sober / within cell coverage, but even then it's pretty rare to catch an actual outage that requires significant attention.