The On-Call Driven Development
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while now. On-call duty is something we rely on, but also dislike. Many businesses believe it’s necessary for reliability in case something goes wrong. My issue isn’t with having someone available to respond to alerts, which is always beneficial. My concern is with how on-call duty affects us engineers. At one of the companies I worked for, I was on-call every six weeks, and sometimes for a few days in between those six-week periods....