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Vol. I · No. 251
Mon · 8 Jun
A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data
The Lexicon

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on-call rotation

/ɒn kɔːl rəʊ.ˈteɪ.ʃən/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The one place the org reliably assigns pipeline ownership: at 3 a.m., to whoever is holding the pager.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A schedule assigning responsibility for responding to pipeline incidents to a named person during a given window.

Filed
See also
  • alert fatigueA channel so loud it has achieved the silence it was built to prevent.
  • brittle jobA job documented entirely in the muscle memory of the one person who knows which step to re-run first.
  • pipeline monitoringA wall of green panels confirming the job ran, and silent on whether it was right.
  • pipeline ownershipA field in the catalog set to the name of someone who left in March.