| As others said, you're on call 24/7, but you can make it easier on yourself. My philosophy: - Keep everything as simple as it can sensibly be. Obviously this will depend on your application but if you can, you're better off having a simple docker compose stack than a complex k8s cluster (as an example), if you don't really need it. This will make it quicker to fix and get back to your vacation when you need to. - If you can afford it, pay for cloud hosting and other services (like backup services, Route53 domains with certificates etc). Their SRE efforts are going to be infinitely more capable and available than yours are. - Use password managers and secure them well. Make it so that you could lose your laptop and be up and running again within 30 minutes of buying a new one. - Keep your development process consistent and documented. I develop everything inside a Docker container and use the same application/service template for everything. Again, this makes it much faster to troubleshoot and bug fix on another machine if required. I do all my development on an EC2 instance using VSCode Remote SSH + Containers so I can connect to the same environment from any machine. This also means if I need to fix something from somewhere with spotty internet, I only need SSH access and I have access to 10Gb internet etc, so uploading new images and patches etc is not affected by my location. All these things probably cost me a few thousand dollars a year (tax deductible) but to me they are worth it for the peace of mind and the few times I have had to fix something in a pinch, it has more than paid for itself. |
Having a spare laptop and phone is cheap - it does not have to be latest and greatest.