On-Call Without Burnout: Rotations, Runbooks, and Escalation

Our best engineer quit citing on-call. We rebuilt the whole thing: saner rotations, runbooks that actually help at 3am, and escalation that doesn't punish asking for help.

DevOps SRE On Call Reliability

Kiril UrbonasDevOps Engineer

|Jul 7, 2026

On-Call Without Burnout: Rotations, Runbooks, and Escalation

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Terraform188 Monitoring179 AWS153 Kubernetes110 LLM102 CI/CD93 Linux83 Python81 GPT73 Security69

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How We Stopped Terraform Drift from Surprising On-Call

A real story of removing console-only changes, adding drift detection, and getting Terraform back in charge.

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Systemd Tricks We Use to Keep Services Boring

Concrete systemd unit patterns that reduced flakiness: restart policies, resource limits, and structured logs.

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On-Call Without Burnout: Rotations, Runbooks, and Escalation

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