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> It shouldn't be too stressful. (...) it's not like there is one person typing at a keyboard with a hundred managers breathing down their neck

Earlier comment mentioned that there is a bottleneck, and that people who are physically able to solve the issue are few and that they need to be informed what to do; being one of these people sounds pretty stressful to me.

"but the people with physical access is separate (...) Part of this is also due to lower staffing in data centers due to pandemic measures", source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28749244



Sure, but that's what conference calls are for.

Most big tech companies automatically start a call for every large scale incident, and adjacent teams are expected to have a representative call in and contribute to identifying/remediating the issue.

None of the people with physical access are individually responsible, and they should have a deep bench of advice and context to draw from.




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