Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers
KRAZAM2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2024–2025
comedy · general · evergreen · 2024–2025 on HN
A KRAZAM comedy sketch in which a character recites reassuring affirmations to site reliability engineers, satirizing on-call and outage culture.
Shared as comic relief that hits close to home for people who work with infrastructure at scale.
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3 comments from Hacker News
Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers ▶ this video this hit so close to home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry
I have only once, for KRAZAM. I need to balance all the time spent on this site reading about using Kubernetes at scale, AI changing the world and how to bring more value to my employer with their videos. ▶ this video
> I spent a weekend building a system where you can call a phone number, complain about your broken Kubernetes cluster, and have an AI therapist with a posh British accent tell you that "your infrastructure is code poetry written in YAML." Related comedy video: "Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers" ▶ this video