Page It Forward!

The text discusses various strategies to enhance the experience of on-call workers, highlighting the importance of providing context, learning from incidents, managing expectations, and showing appreciation. It emphasizes the need for accessible historical information to avoid wasting time during outages, and suggests tools like PagerDuty for alert grouping and postmortem analysis. The text also stresses the importance of reviewing alerts regularly to prevent the normalization of deviance and encourages a culture of learning from failures. Managing customer expectations is crucial, and metrics should be tied to business outcomes rather than arbitrary standards. The text advocates for personalized gestures of appreciation, such as baking treats, to acknowledge the efforts of on-call staff. It also suggests adjusting alert policies based on the time of day to reduce unnecessary disruptions for on-call engineers.