[bifrost]

There are two pieces of advice that I give all of the startups I work with: - No Spurious Alerts - Don't test code in production, ever.

Keep a release schedule, stick to it, do not deviate. If you can't get your stuff tested before the deadline, thats on you and your peers should not suffer. Make sure that all engineer receive alerts via email, its neccesary to "share the pain" so that people get an idea of what mistakes do. Weekly rotation is probably the best thing to do, that way there is a consistent point person for the week.

[notfunk]

Agreed, we are thinking the weekly rotation will be better then daily to help whomever is on call to have a sense of "ownership" of the environment.

Our overall goal is to keep the DevOps skills sharp between as many members of the team as possible...