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by pavel_lishin 4149 days ago
That seems pretty wasteful if emergencies are rare.

We have three people on-call on my team, and we typically have an issue at most once a month - and so far, in 95% of cases, the issue can be resolved by killing an errant ec2 instance and waiting for its replacement to spin up in 5 minutes.

It would be much more disruptive and annoying if I had to work the graveyard shift even once every two months or so; aside from shifting my sleep schedule once every two months, it would be a week where I would probably be fairly unproductive.