A healthy on-call schedule needs six or more engineers if every alert is to be taken seriously by an engineer focused mainly on on-call and stability.

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• A sustainable on-call rotation needs seven or eight engineers. WLWill Larson14 Jul 2018
• On-call is part of an engineer’s job rather than something to be paid extra for, except where paying for it is the only way to make management fund the reliability work. CMCharity Majors30 Jun 2022
• Being woken up two or three times a year on call is reasonable, and more than that is a management failure rather than an engineering one. CMCharity Majors30 Jun 2022
• A permanently painful on-call rotation is a five-alarm emergency, not a normal cost of owning code in production. CMCharity Majors30 Jun 2022
• In a safety-critical industry the regulator should be recruited onto the team early, so that it is you and the regulator against the problem. BSBlake Scholl28 Jul 2026

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