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On Call Rotations: How Best to Wake Devs Up in the Middle of the Night

Article by The New Stack, reporting Charity Majors

A discussion of on-call as shared ownership, including the managerial work required to make it sustainable.

The idea to take with you

The rotation needs an owner who sees the human cost and turns repeated pages into engineering work.

What to look for

A reported talk with strongly opinionated language. Ownership does not justify unsafe fatigue or unbounded availability expectations.

Put it to work

Review a rotation’s recent pages. Identify repeat alerts, missing runbooks, and recovery gaps; reserve capacity for the most costly pattern.

Notes and exercises by Awesome CTO. The original work belongs to The New Stack, reporting Charity Majors.

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