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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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