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01 May
INCIDENT

The Follow-the-Sun Rotation That Actually Works

Our first attempt at follow-the-sun on-call just moved the burnout around the globe instead of eliminating it. Here's the...

Lena Park May 1 2026 3 min
26 Apr
CULTURE

What carrying the pager taught us about product

Every engineer ships better features after a week on call. Here is what changes.

Arjun Mehta Apr 26 2026 2 min
23 Apr
INCIDENT

The Postmortem Nobody Wanted to Write

The outage was caused by a decision leadership made against an engineer's explicit warning. Writing that postmortem honestly...

Arjun Mehta Apr 23 2026 3 min
16 Apr
INCIDENT

Why We Pay an On-Call Stipend, and Why It Isn't Enough

We introduced a flat on-call stipend two years ago expecting it to fix morale. It helped, and it also exposed a problem money...

Lena Park Apr 16 2026 3 min
09 Apr
INCIDENT

Building a Culture Where a Junior Engineer Can Page a VP

Our escalation policy technically allowed anyone to page anyone. In practice, junior engineers waited an average of 22 minutes...

Arjun Mehta Apr 9 2026 2 min
02 Apr
INCIDENT

The Interview Question That Predicts Good Incident Commanders

We tested a dozen interview questions against eighteen months of real incident-commander performance. Only one actually...

Tomás Rivera Apr 2 2026 3 min
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