Ask HN: Who else is working/on call over Christmas?

I'm not working but oncall. Fingers crossed. I always volunteer (I did a few years in a row) as usually it's quiet (no deployments, people understand it's a holiday) and it's a small price to pay to not feel bad for always trying to sneak out of being oncall for new year's eve :). .

Best of luck OP and merry Christmas too!

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On-call here, but it's mostly because it arrives on a weekend, all I'm required to do is Acknowledge Alerts that are usually false positives, unless some big service disruption occurs

I’m not on call, but I’m really happy that the guys from home alarm provider are on call. We had a maltunction and they promptly reacted. Cool - and the merry evening could go on. Merry christmas.

Own a little SaaS. Gave everyone the week off between Christmas and New Years. Have been happy to do this 5/6 years we have been in business. Love giving it to my team for all the hard work they do all year.

Machine wise k8s is rock solid and I never need to touch it.

Client wise, will be a few support tickets…

on call, in case someone has a major cyber incident. so far, so quiet

Currently putting the finishing touches on a proposal that is, for some unfathomable reason, due the 28th of December.

Running a decentralised network. Some nodes not behaving well.

I am doing a python freelance job. It sucks.

Sorry to hear about your generator fire. Power stuff is usually a major drag because most of us on the IT side can’t do anything about it.

I’m on-call ops support for a public safety answering point (a “911 call-center”) this weekend. It’s a regular call rotation and my number was up for this one. It’s usually quiet— except when it isn’t.

I’m gonna go on-site to a Customer’s on-prem server room tomorrow morning and swap out a bad drive in a SAN. I’m pretty happy because I know there’s no chance of a “Hey, while you’re here-” event! Empty offices mean no unexpected questions!

I usually volunteer, whether or not I actually end up working varies.

Fingers crossed for this year. I'm hopeful, we've done well to improve reliability and coach the junior teams

Working on my own startup so putting my all into it.

I am always on-call. Pages that fall through, end up paging me. Happy Christmas, New Years everybody and stay safe!

Best of luck with the generator.

I'm on a hotline, volunteering, for people who might be feeling extra mental stress due to the holidays and might do something they regret. I decided not to risk the travel to see family with the storms and I figured I might as well try to help others who might be dealing with some of the same tough emotions that often plague me this time of year.

I'm on call this past week and next week!

My on-call is a bit odd because it's both as OSS maintainer deciding whether I need to coordinate a hotfix release, as well as certain functionality within a managed service (PaaS) enabled by the OSS project. Only the latter thing can actually page me, and I don't anticipate being paged. Fingers crossed!

I was surprised to find that my startup's contract dev kept working on the 23rd and even 24th. If he's pinging me with questions and sending me new versions to test, I'm going to answer and test stuff out! It's not mission-critical though (it's an manifest v3 transition, which Google has given a reprieve on), so we'll take a few days before getting back to it.

The good thing about testing browser extensions is that you can do much of it while just surfing the web! Cheers to everyone else who are clocking in during the holidays!

Meeee (OnCall). But my team is small/I don't really have to do anything (fingers crossed). I do dislike that my phone volume is on, when normally it's off, so every notification is making noise

Press 4 to acknowledge.

On call, but this is the best time of the year to be on call: none of my coworkers are around to break anything. A gut estimate of my pager load is that 80 percent of pages are caused by bad changes pushed by humans, and another 10 percent are caused by changes pushed by humans exercising latent errors in the system, and only the remaining 10 percent random shit breaking.

The main downside is that I also don't have as many people to escalate / help when an outage does occur over the holidays. But that's not as urgent now that say, generator fires are Amazon's problem not mine.

christmas is the busiest time for one of my customers, and just last week one of the data servers had hardware issues that ended up in everything but the disks being replaced because the hosting provider could not find which component was actually broken. i am busy rebuilding raid since, but already 2 out of 3 raid devices restored. it was touch and go for a while, with a risk of loosing the whole server (because raid kept claiming that disks were faulty when they really weren't) i am already rethinking the architecture to make it more robust and am trying to convince the customer to invest in new servers for that.

i am the only one in my role, so i'll be monitoring the rebuild process over the holidays. that said, i don't celebrate christmas anyways, so in a team i'd be the first to volunteer to be on call at this time to allow others to relax, while i'd be taking time off on my own holidays.

Just had a pointless alarm go off that resolved after a few minutes. According to the Runbook there isn’t even any action that can be taken!

I am a volunteer at a research lab right now in another state over my winter break. Had the opportunity to take a break, but I don't know anyone here and won't be here for a long time so thought what the heck

I am marking exams. My deadline to enter the final grades is December 27th.

I'm on call 24/7. One of the downsides of a small company.

I go months between needing to do anything though.

Deadline confusion :)