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The Register: "New boss took charge of project code and sent two billion unwanted emails." #OnCall #TechFails

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/24/on_call/

The incident started, as these things do, with a confident sentence: “It’s just a certificate.”

One hour later we had:
- a surprise dependency chain,
- three services that cached the old value forever,
- and a monitoring dashboard that proudly declared everything healthy while users screamed.

It was not “just a certificate.”
It was a distributed, time-sensitive trust exercise we had been ignoring.

#Production #OnCall #DevOps #SRE #IncidentResponse #EngineeringHumor #Reliability #ByernNotes

I’m almost 50 — as a sex worker, this is how I treat the 18-year-olds who book me

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/02/01/im-almost-50-a-sex-worker-this-treat-18-year-olds-book-26609679/

DevOps Meetup Zurich on Tuesday: 2 talks, 1 message: sustainable delivery is leadership, not heroism.
RTE exhaustion (Nikolaos Kaintantzis) + reliability without burnout/on-call (Adhi Sutandi).
Next meetup: Feb 19 @ Digicomp.
Slides: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7423274189895249920/
#DevOps #SAFe #SRE #OnCall #Reliability #Agile

On Call Staffel 1 ✔️
Kurzweilige Mini-Serie
#serien #serienjunkie #OnCall
@filme_serien@anonsys.net

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14582876/?ref_=ext_shr_other

I’ve been a sex worker for 30 years — one trend is disturbing, even for me

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/18/a-sex-worker-30-years-one-trend-disturbing-even-26324444/

My New Year’s Eve – 2025

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31st December 2025. I was NOT oncall.

It was a Wednesday and it was a normal working day. Hence, at 7:45am, I left to work as usual and was there by 8am. It was the New Year’s Eve. I thought that maybe, just maybe, there would be less patients in the clinic.

The day started off smoothly. Surprisingly, there were many patients who came for their follow up followed by additional patients (the defaulters and walk-ins) but it was manageable. We went about our day, seeing each patient and when lunch time came, we went for our lunch break.

At 2pm, we went about our work, seeing patients as usual and I was taking my time with each patient. The patient load in the afternoon shift was lower compared to the morning shift and both my colleagues were done with their patient load.

Suddenly, a staff nurse barged into my room saying that there is a massive accident that just occurred nearby, 2 patients were already brought in and 2 more were on their way. They called in all available doctors (which were only the three of us) to help out.

I told my colleagues to head out and help out first while I rushed through the consultation of my final patient. After that, I rushed to the tiny Emergency Room of the clinic. My colleague who was oncall on that day was already attending to a child. I went over to the other patient, an old lady and did my primary survey and fast scan.

She was desaturating badly under room air and needed oxygen support. She had an open skull fracture, multiple abrasion and laceration wounds over her face, upper and lower limbs as well as rib fractures and on top of that, her left leg appears shortened and she has a closed fracture over her right lower limb.

I didn’t think that we should proceed with an x-ray at our clinic even if we had the facility at that time, the best would be to send them straight away to the hospital because she could deteriorate further any time. Thankfully, her GCS (Glasgow Coma Scale) was full.

I was focused on my patient, stabilising while referring her to the specialists of various specialities as well as the emergency physician that when I finally got ready to transfer her out that I noticed the child that my other colleague was attending to. The child’s right arm was crushed and the distal limb of his right arm was pale and his right lung was obvious till mid-chest.

Just how in the world is he still awake? The poor child was crying out in pain…

Judging by the state of his and my patient’s injuries, it was definitely high impact.

The story was, the whole family were travelling back from Miri to Kuching. Both the parents were sitting in front and the father was driving whilst the two children and their grandmother were sitting at the back.

The father claimed that he was not speeding but as he was about to make a u-turn at a junction, he claimed to have hit the curb and the car turned many times into the other lane before finally stopping and the grandmother and one of the child were thrown out of the car.

It sounded like a very high impact collision. Thankfully, the parents and the other child were well and unscathed.

We had to transfer both patients in two separate ambulances to the Red Zone of the Emergency Department at Hospital Bintulu as one ambulance could only transport one patient at a time.

Upon arriving, I met my colleague and friend at the Red Zone of the hospital. After we have handed over to the medical officers and specialist in the Emergency Department, we headed back together. However, upon reaching back, there was another patient who came in who was extremely tachypnoiec.

Oh, here we go again… Another Red Zone referral…

We stabilised the patient and referred her to hospital again. The clock was already showing 10pm when we left. The journey to the hospital takes about 45 minutes to an hour for each journey and the both of us have yet to have our dinner. This time, I choose to accompany her for the referral, mainly for emotional support and also in hopes of stopping by McDonald’s to get a takeout.

Yes, we did stop by McDonalds after sending the patient safely to the hospital and yes, we used the ambulance and went through drive-through.

By the time we left, it was already 11pm. The journey takes around 45 minutes to an hour and it was raining heavily. At this point, I was wondering if we would end up celebrating New Year’s in the ambulance.

Me and my friend ate in the ambulance on the way back while we joked and exchange oncall stories. Thankfully, we reached a little before midnight. The day was completely unexpected, not to mention tiring but it was nice to have spent it with a friend.

It’s still the beginning of 2026, so if I’m not too late, Happy New Year!

If you are travelling anytime soon or in the future, do drive safely, stay within speed limits especially if it is raining. Remember to get your car and tyres checked before any long distance journey and NEVER drive under the influence.

Stay safe always!

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Diptanu Choudhury (@diptanu)

원시 프로덕션 알림을 받아 과거 사고와 컨텍스트로 추론해 자동 처리 여부를 결정하고, 실제로 중요할 때만 사람을 깨우는 'AI 온콜 엔지니어'를 개발했다고 발표했습니다. 해당 시스템은 Tensorlake, Groq Inc, ExaAI Labs 등과 함께 빌드되었으며, 인시던트 대응 자동화·오토핸들링과 에스컬레이션 결정을 목표로 합니다.

https://x.com/diptanu/status/2011469984623718599

#ai #oncall #incidentresponse #mlops #observability

My FIRST SOLO Oncall Shift As A Floating Medical Officer

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My first solo oncall shift was on the 17th of August 2025 a few days after I have completed my tagging period.

I had a passive oncall on standby just in case things got out of hand, which is a good thing. However, I was adamant to try to survive on my own as if I only had myself and the specialist. Thankfully as well, it was on a weekday which meant I was able to reach out and ask for help if needed and the others would be able to assist if needed or advice me.

As usual, morning rounds, followed by peri rounds. The role as an oncall medical officer of the day is to update the progress of the patients in the specialist’s WhatsApp group as well as to upload any latest wound pictures, if any.

The day was rather busy with rounds and in between I would receive calls from Klinik Kesihatan (Community Clinics), usually requesting a clinic date. Thankfully, no referrals yet.

After rounds, I headed back to the ward to complete any pending joblists before heading into the operating theatre (OT) for a patient that was awaiting her call to OT.

During that operation, there was a referral from the Emergency and Trauma (ETD) Department, referring a case of laceration wound over the forehead for a 3 year old boy.

The medical officer at the ETD was kind enough to assist in taking the bloods as well as admitting the patient. My colleague on the other hand came to check in on me after her day in the clinic and attended to this kid.

After the first operation, the following case was called which was the 3-year-old kid. I have always enjoyed being in the operating theatre, or any hands on procedures.

Despite knowing that I should be conserving energy, instead, I proceeded to carry on and after the second op, I entered an ongoing flap operation next door to assist.

Another referral came for a laceration wound over the forehead for an Orthopaedic patient who was post-operative and transferred to ICU. Apparently, it was missed when the patient arrived at the Emergency Department as he suffered multiple opened fracture and was posted for operation immediately. Thankfully, he was intubated and sedated and I was able to perform a bedside toilet and suturing for him.

By the time I was done, it was midnight. I went back to the oncall room to shower and change for the night. I would usually change into scrubs again if I were to be oncall, just to be on standby in case I was needed immediately.

I did not sleep that night, it just felt wrong as the flap operation was still ongoing since 8am.

I went in again to check in on them, however, I was not needed at that time. Thus, I kept a fellow colleague company.

At 2am, I returned back to ward to complete the planned discharge of a patient and started my morning review. Thankfully, I did. In between, I was referred a new case of another kid who suffered another laceration wound at his right eyebrow. Thus, counselled the parents, obtained consent and admitted the patient.

After that, I was requested to collect bloods or bags packed cell for the patient who was still ongoing operation. When the commotion was done, I returned to continue my early morning reviews.

By 4am, I went back inside the operating theatre to check in on the ongoing operation. Technically, still far from done. Scrubbed in to assist with harvesting the skin for split thickness skin graft and refashioning of the affected limb.

At 8am, we were finally done. The operation officially lasted for 24 hours. All of us scrubbed out and I changed out of my attire to return to ward and follow rounds.

During peri rounds, a patient was called to OT and I entered organ as I dislike peri rounds. After the OT, all of us were just beyond tired and I went home for the day.

No doubt, it was my first “solo oncall”, it did not feel lonely at all as since there was an ongoing operation, physically, I felt comforted knowing that there were people nearby and felt more like a slumber party instead.

And the most important part… I survived it!

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An article regarding my First SOLO oncall shift as a Floating Medical Officer after I have successfully completed my first month of tagging in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

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#malaysia #medicalofficer #medicine #oncall #kuching #sarawak #surgery #healthcare

http://theoreticaldoctor.com/2026/01/10/my-first-solo-oncall-shift-as-a-floating-medical-officer/

Every system works perfectly until it meets DNS, timezones, certificates, or humans.
Usually at the same time.
In production.
On a Friday.

Experience is just pattern recognition with better alerts.

#Production #DevOps #SiteReliability #EngineeringHumor #IncidentResponse #OnCall #TechReality #ByernNotes

I SURVIVED My First Month Of Tagging As A Floating Medical Officer

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Thank God. Seriously.

I started my journey on the 21st of August 2025 and officially off-tag on the 14th of September 2025 after my last tagging oncall shift.

Technically, it was not a month but 3 weeks. Nevertheless, a very tiring 3 weeks with every other day oncalls and one sick leave in between.

The tagging oncalls were every other day (EOD), this meant an oncall shift followed by postcall and the following day is an office hour shift only to be followed by oncall again.

Overall, it was a mixture of fun and tiredness. My sleeping schedule was definitely off as I am usually disturbed in the middle of the night as the time I am usually able to sleep peacefully is during my postcall shifts.

Thankfully, I always had a senior with me to guide me. Thus, every referral I received, I would discuss on the management plan with them. It was mentally challenging as well as the learning curve is extremely steep for a junior medical officer such as myself.

Having completed my tagging period, I am still at lost in terms of management especially for extremely complicated cases. Thus, I find myself running to any of my seniors or the specialists.

Am I confident now though?

Not really. Less terrified and yes somewhat a tad bit confident than when I initially begun. However, just a tad.

The fear is still there as I just do not know what to expect on the types of referrals I will receive during my call.

Some things just don’t change. The fear that I felt during my House Officer days are still there and at times, I wish that I could just simply disappear run away from the issue but doing so, does not help.

Thus, the only solution for me is to dive head on into the issue and call for help whenever needed.

If any of you are experiencing this, just know that you are not alone and sometimes the feelings felt internally just can’t be expressed properly either via words or verbally.

If you are showing up everyday despite feeling this way, you are doing a good job. Take comfort in that as it is not an easy thing to just do. Sometimes, showing up daily in itself is a hard task.

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My First Tagging On-Call Shift As A Floating Medical Officer

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My first tagging oncall shift was on a Sunday with a fellow medical officer I knew when I was a House Officer in General Surgery. Back then, he was having his attachment in General Surgery.

Just like a House Officer, we had to undergo a period of “tagging“.

In the Department of Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery at Sarawak General Hospital, I had to undergo a tagging period of one month, every other day (EOD). This is because, I am a newborn medical officer with no previous experience in General Surgery (as a Medical Officer).

This is an advantage as I would be able to learn as much as I could within a span of 1 month. However, it was also a disadvantage as I’m afraid, I would be burnt out mentally and physically considering the on-calls were on every other day (EOD).

“I can do it. If others could, I could too.” , I repeated this mantra to myself but the learning curve is going to be an extremely steep one.

During my first tagging oncall, thankfully, it was with a fellow senior colleague who I was rather comfortable with.

We started with our morning ward rounds followed by passover and peri-rounds. After we were done, we went back to the ward to settle our pending job-lists followed by lunch.

As a tagging on-call medical officer, the first call would be to me for referrals. After which, I would discuss with my senior and proceed to see the referred patient together. After reviewing our newly electively admitted patients, pre-op rounds with surgeon and demarcating the op site and pre-op meeting, we went back home in the evening and returned at night together for our night reviews which we updated in the Department’s WhatsApp Group on the progress of certain patients. Incidentally, a patient whom we were awaiting for op was called into the operating theatre and the operation ended at 2am. Finally, we returned home for the night.

I was nervous of course as I usually get anxious easily. However, I took my shower and headed to bed.

My phone was kept beside me in case I were to receive calls or referrals. At 6am, I returned to the ward and started our morning reviews as well as prepared for our morning rounds.

Since, it was a Monday, it was morning ward rounds, handover and peri rounds as usual. However, since I was still tagging, I was expected to stay till 5pm or to join the ongoing surgeries.

Thus, my first postcall was spent in the operating theatre assisting till 6pm. However, despite the ongoing operation, I excused myself to return home and rest.

The following day will be another one, thankfully, not oncall but within office hours.

Thankfully, it was a good call with a fellow senior that I was comfortable with in terms of approaching in regards to my doubts which was undoubtedly, many.

I can only hope that I would be able to survive this whole month of tagging.

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My First Tagging On-call Shift As A Floating Medical Officer. Article written by Dr. Jewel Nambiar.

An article regarding my First Tagging Oncall shift as a Floating Medical Officer in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Sarawak General Hospital.

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http://theoreticaldoctor.com/2026/01/08/my-first-tagging-on-call-shift-as-a-floating-medical-officer/

An article regarding the start of my 2026 as I serve as the oncall Medical Officer at my new working place.

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#oncall #medicalofficer #malaysia #medicine #medical #sarawak

http://theoreticaldoctor.com/2026/01/05/2026-the-beginning/

‘Soft domming’ is growing in popularity as men say they’re tired of steering the ship

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/04/soft-domming-growing-popularity-men-tired-steering-ship-25906603/

Инцидент-менеджмент с нуля: практический гайд для растущих команд

3 часа ночи. Звонок от незнакомого номера. ”Пользователи не могут залогиниться, п****ц”. Вы лихорадочно листаете Slack. Непонятно, где проблема и кого будить. Подняли тестеров — они тоже гадают. Бэкенд? Инфра? Идёте во флудилку в телеге, ищете похожий ник тимлида. Не отвечает. Кто замещает - никто не знает. Начинается массовый обзвон. Через 40 минут находится человек. Смотрит код. “Не моё. Это к Сане — он, кажется, редирект криво поменял в гугл клауд консоли”. Ещё 20 минут — поиск Сани, доступы только у него. Утром все разбитые. CTO вопрошает. И становится ясно: баг простой. Проблема не в коде. Проблема в бардаке. Знакомо? Я тоже через это прошел. И после такой ночи решил: хватит. Нужна система.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/982172/

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Инфраструктура не знает, что сегодня праздник

Согласитесь, что встретить Новый год рядом с семьёй и друзьями - намного приятнее, чем сидеть за ноутбуком в 02:40 и с квадратными глазами разбираться, почему “что-то там легло”, а доступ к нужным секретам остался только у одного человека… который как раз в этот момент режет оливье и не слышит телефон. Ниже я делюсь своим чеклистом из 8 пунктов. Он помогает спокойно уйти в праздники и не проводить их в обнимку с ноутом. А после прочтения, в комментах, обязательно поделитесь что бы вы еще добавили.

https://habr.com/ru/articles/980340/

#sre #oncall #devops #checklist #production #infrastucture #monitoring #dns #runbook