In the cloud enabled world where everything runs 24/7 someone behind the scenes is usually on the hook to make sure that when things break off hours that a human reacts. On call is often a team based rotation of a few days to a week with varying degrees of guarantees. Some teams have SLA’s that require a reaction immediately, others can tolerate more graceful degradation. In any case at some point someone gets the dreaded page from PagerDuty.
Musings about "On Call"
In the cloud enabled world where everything runs 24/7 someone behind the scenes is usually on the hook to make sure that when things break off hours that a human reacts. On call is often a team based rotation of a few days to a week with varying degrees of guarantees. Some teams have SLA’s that require a reaction immediately, others can tolerate more graceful degradation. In any case at some point someone gets the dreaded page from PagerDuty.