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how does your team actually do on-call?

Marcus Johnson · 2026-09-19T17:21:00.000Z

weekly rotation, primary + secondary · follow the sun across timezones · dedicated SRE/ops team carries the pager · whoever touched it last (send help) ·…

Marcus Johnson@marcus_oncall

September 19, 2026 · 1 min read

#1 in Ship It Friday

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15 votesEnds Oct 3, 2026

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Marcus Johnson

SRE at a freight logistics company in Atlanta. Kubernetes, Terraform, pagers. I have been woken up by every possible alert. Smoker (the BBQ kind).

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Chloe Barnes@chloebuilds#5 in Ship It Friday1mo ago

voted "i am the rotation". the rotation would like a holiday

Marcus Johnson@marcus_oncall#1 in Ship It Friday1mo ago

the rotation has been denied PTO by management (also the rotation)

Hannah Weiss@hannahweiss#4 in Ship It Friday29d ago

Weekly with primary and secondary, plus one rule: nobody is on call in the week after a night with more than two pages. It made a real difference for sleep and for mistakes.