[rsanek]

an incident only once a year is an absurd bar. I'm no fan of on call but ensuring that level of incident avoidance would force the company to move at glacial speeds, which is even worse over the long term than getting paged.

I think my sweet spot is somewhere between once a week and once a month, spread across the whole team.

[TehShrike]

an incident that requires immediate developer intervention, rather than waiting until tomorrow? It seems like you would have to go out of your way to create a system so fragile that this happened once a month