Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers
What it is
A KRAZAM comedy sketch in which a character recites reassuring affirmations to site reliability engineers, satirizing on-call and outage culture.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Shared as comic relief that hits close to home for people who work with infrastructure at scale.
- 2 people recommended it
- 2 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2024, last 2025
What HN commenters said
“I need to balance all the time spent on this site reading about using Kubernetes at scale”
Comedy that balances serious tech reading
sph, 2024-08 · Recommendation · in “The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]”
“this hit so close to home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry”
Satire of site reliability engineering that hits close to home
einichi, 2024-09 · Recommendation · in “Krazam: High Agency Individual Contributor [video]”
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Topics: sre, on-call, outages, krazam, devops humor
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