On Call Brief

Your weekly SRE/DevOps briefing. Security patches, postmortems, releases, and community reads — curated for the on-call engineer.

Each brief is dated by its editorial week (not the companion podcast release schedule); when inbox or RSS ingest lags affected sourcing, we say so in the draft.

Latest: On Call Brief – Week of August 30–September 5, 2026

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Past Briefs

2026-06-07 — 2026-06-13

On Call Brief – Week of June 7–13, 2026

Published 3 months ago (Jun 14, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-05-31 — 2026-06-06

On Call Brief – Week of May 31 – June 6, 2026

Published 3 months ago (Jun 7, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Breaking Change Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-05-24 — 2026-05-30

On Call Brief – Week of May 24–30, 2026

Published 3 months ago (May 31, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Breaking Change Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-05-17 — 2026-05-23

On Call Brief – Week of May 17–23, 2026

Published 4 months ago (May 24, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-05-10 — 2026-05-16

On Call Brief – Week of May 10–16, 2026

Published 4 months ago (May 17, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Breaking Change Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-05-03 — 2026-05-09

On Call Brief – Week of May 3–9, 2026

Published 4 months ago (May 10, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Breaking Change Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-04-26 — 2026-05-02

On Call Brief – Week of April 26 – May 2, 2026

Published 4 months ago (May 3, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-04-19 — 2026-04-25

On Call Brief – Week of April 19–25, 2026

Published 4 months ago (Apr 26, 2026 6:00 am EDT)

Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-04-12

On Call Brief – Week of April 12–18, 2026

Published 5 months ago (Apr 11, 2026 8:00 pm EDT)

Breaking Change Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-04-05

On Call Brief – Week of April 5–11, 2026

Published 5 months ago (Apr 4, 2026 8:00 pm EDT)

Breaking Change Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-03-29

On Call Brief – Week of March 29 – April 4, 2026

Published 5 months ago (Mar 28, 2026 8:00 pm EDT)

Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-03-22

On Call Brief – Week of March 22–28, 2026

Published 6 months ago (Mar 21, 2026 8:00 pm EDT)

Breaking Change Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch