Or you put your laptop in the trunk of your car when you're on call and have tethering on your phone.
Expecting another group to maintain your code seems an awful lot like throwing it over the wall.
Expecting another group to maintain your code seems an awful lot like throwing it over the wall.
You should have faith in the systems that you build. If you don't want to carry a pager for them, why does someone else want to do it?
SREs have global responsibility to the system and have a correspondingly global view. If your system broke down because of a bug you wrote, that’s on you. If a system three times removed from yours that you didn’t know depended on you broke because you changed a non-API behavior, that’s where SREs shine: they know how to quickly isolate the problem, roll back the necessary systems, and define how to avoid similar problems in the future.