You don't have an on-call rotation but do have people dedicated to vendor relationships, and that guy works on the weekend? I'm not sure how you completely avoid getting alerts on the weekend for third-party payment processor issues, which can happen anytime, if you actually want to transact business on the weekend.
replyI said vendor here but it’s more like banks we work with. So there’s someone responsible for the technical side of banking relationships.
replyBut yeah it’s kinda a zone where most weekends there’s no problems so it’s not a huge priority… until it is
Yeah good luck being employed in 3 years once this bubble popped when all you do is type some natural language into a phone screen. People being proud of not using an IDE anymore is such a foreign concept to me, who enjoys coding and got into the profession because of the love of that.
replyThe “debugging” for these type of issues is looking at some logs and http responses and being like “ah if we get this error it means they restarted their firewall again and took us off the whitelist. Email that guy Joe at the bank and hope he responds”. It’s not rocket science or the majority of my job… but someone’s needs to do it. We automate all the stuff we can.
replyIf you got into the industry due to enjoying the typing of code the future is looking pretty bleak.
replyI dunno.
replyI've been watching "How it's made" on Hulu to fall asleep at night.
I’m constantly surprised by how many things are made with human hands, despite the ability to automate.
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replyAn enormous amount of on-call debugging is just natural language reading of logs.
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