Experience tells me an allnighter would be a poor idea, as sleep deprivation is just as harmful to cognitive abilities than being drunk. Especially in the times between 5AM and 8AM, which I've found affects individuals the most.
If something goes wrong with your database, you'll be in a shitty condition to make fast and sound judgement calls.
One could say that not everybody's the same, but in those conditions I think that's not true. I've trained extensively under sleep deprived conditions in the military, where we were continually asked to make quick decisions in harsh conditions. Everybody's bad when sleep deprived and everybody's especially shitty at 5AM.
The last sentence is interesting to me - I wonder if there are many sys/devops types who are morning people? I'm a developer and function much better at 5am than 11pm, but it'd be an interesting correlation if server-peeps were almost exclusively nightowls.
If something goes wrong with your database, you'll be in a shitty condition to make fast and sound judgement calls.
One could say that not everybody's the same, but in those conditions I think that's not true. I've trained extensively under sleep deprived conditions in the military, where we were continually asked to make quick decisions in harsh conditions. Everybody's bad when sleep deprived and everybody's especially shitty at 5AM.