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On-call

Running an on-call rotation is a systems problem, not a heroism problem. Notes on what to automate, what to document, what to drop, and when to push back.

Photograph of a numeric pager device symbolising on-call duty, hero image for posts about on-call engineering.
Pager photograph © Prioryman (Wikimedia), CC BY-SA 2.0

Half of on-call is the system; half of on-call is how the team talks about the system. Both halves have to be healthy. The posts under this hub are the things I wish I’d written down the first five years.

§ Editor's picks

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§ Writing

All writing on on-call

The pinned post above is the only write-up so far.

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