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.

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Kiril UrbonasDevOps Engineer

|Jul 7, 2026

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

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AWS ECS vs EKS: Choosing the Right Container Platform

We run both ECS and EKS in production. Which we use for what, and the actual decision criteria — not the marketing comparison.

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

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