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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There are two hard problems in computer science." We've worked on the cache-invalidation one for a while. The patterns that hold up at scale and the ones that look clean and aren't.
Embeddings Drift Detection — When "Similar Enough" Stops Being Similar
Embedding indexes degrade silently. The signals that catch drift, how often to re-embed, and the operational patterns we built after one quiet quality regression.