Your Runbook Has No Unfreeze Test: Rehearsing On-Call Freezes With a Fake Clock
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Every runbook I have inherited tests the entrance and forgets the exit. We rehearse the page, rehearse the first command, rehearse the escalation, and then we ship a freeze rule whose only validation is that a human remembered to lift it. So here is the conclusion up front: a freeze without an exec…
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- 2026-10-17 06:14 · DEV Community — AI
Your Runbook Has No Unfreeze Test: Rehearsing On-Call Freezes With a Fake Clock