Flagging because we don't need a second day of front page items being marketing posts for a book. Google is using it's press contacts to try and get this book on the bestseller list to make their company look good, we get it. An ad for a book isn't HN-worthy.
I was a Google SRE for two years. Three months after joining I was about to go oncall for the first time and I was worried about "what happens if I get paged!"
The first day of my first shift, before lunch, I got paged twelve times. It was trial by fire. My teammates coined the term "Gabriel Shift" to describe an oncall shift when everything catches fire at the same time.
It was stressful, but I did miss the adrenaline when I moved to SWE. It's cliche, but it made me feel alive :)
To my former brothers in arms: THIS IS A PAGE FROM TELEBOT. TELEBOT TELEBOT TELEBOT.
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I was a Google SRE for two years. Three months after joining I was about to go oncall for the first time and I was worried about "what happens if I get paged!"
The first day of my first shift, before lunch, I got paged twelve times. It was trial by fire. My teammates coined the term "Gabriel Shift" to describe an oncall shift when everything catches fire at the same time.
It was stressful, but I did miss the adrenaline when I moved to SWE. It's cliche, but it made me feel alive :)
To my former brothers in arms: THIS IS A PAGE FROM TELEBOT. TELEBOT TELEBOT TELEBOT.
So many stories of texting "STFU" to your SO and "I love you" to Telebot...
We also built a SCUD SRE rocket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPlJgQsUJvA
> Don’t get IT people who specialize in running Internet services to run your Internet services. Have software coders run them instead.
The point is that one should consider the former to be a subset of the latter.