The first ten minutes of an outage are a coordination problem

<p>Every operations team gets the same advice: improve your runbooks, create better escalation policies, train engineers on incident response, tune alert thresholds. Some of it

<p>A few weeks back I gave a coding agent one instruction: <em>"fix the failing import and ship it."</em></p> <p>CI went green. The agent, which I'd allowed to self-merge when

<p>Here's something nobody talks about: your on-call burnout isn't about being on-call.</p> <p>It's about what happens <em>after</em> you fix something.</p> <p>Two weeks ago, a

<p>Railway runs on Google Cloud, AWS, and its own metal.</p> <p>So when I first saw that Railway was down for hours, my first thought was probably the same as yours.</p> <p>"How

<p>I still remember the exact moment.</p> <p>It was 11pm. My team had been sprinting for 3 weeks building <br /> a new payments feature. Deadline tomorrow. I handed the final <br