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26 Mar
INCIDENT

What Six Months of On-Call Retros Taught Us About Trust

We started a monthly retro-of-retros just for the on-call rotation itself, separate from incident postmortems. Trust, it turns...

Lena Park Mar 26 2026 3 min
19 Mar
INCIDENT

Blameless Doesn't Mean Consequence-Free

A new engineer asked us a fair question after their first retro: if nobody's ever at fault, what stops someone from being...

Arjun Mehta Mar 19 2026 2 min
12 Mar
INCIDENT

The Night We Almost Lost Our Best SRE to a Bad Rotation

She had her resignation letter drafted before we even knew there was a problem. This is what the exit interview taught us about...

Lena Park Mar 12 2026 3 min
05 Mar
INCIDENT

The Quarter We Finally Fixed On-Call Dread

Engagement survey comments about on-call had been getting worse for three straight quarters. We finally treated dread as a...

Arjun Mehta Mar 5 2026 3 min
26 Feb
INCIDENT

Career Growth for People Who Fix Things Nobody Sees

Our promotion packets used to reward shipped features almost exclusively. The engineers who kept the lights on quietly stopped...

Lena Park Feb 26 2026 3 min
19 Feb
INCIDENT

The Incident Review That Changed How We Hire

A routine retro for a two-hour outage turned into the reason we rewrote our entire senior-engineer interview loop.

Arjun Mehta Feb 19 2026 3 min
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