Escalation Is a State Machine, Not a Phone Tree
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The worst on-call hour starts with a missed fact, not a missed phone call. You see the alert, skim three paragraphs of a runbook, and run the wrong command first—or skip the freeze window entirely—and the incident gets worse. The fix is to model escalation as a state machine and let each alert carr…
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- 2026-09-01 13:04 · DEV Community — AI
Escalation Is a State Machine, Not a Phone Tree