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 September 27–October 3, 2026

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Past Briefs

2026-04-12

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

Published 6 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 6 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 6 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
2026-03-15

On Call Brief – Week of March 15–21, 2026

Published 7 months ago (Mar 14, 2026 8:00 pm EDT)

Community Deep Dive Security / Patch
2026-03-08

On Call Brief – Week of March 8–14, 2026

Published 7 months ago (Mar 7, 2026 7:00 pm EST)

Community Deep Dive Release Security / Patch
2026-03-01

On Call Brief – Week of March 1–7, 2026

Published 7 months ago (Feb 28, 2026 7:00 pm EST)

Community Release Security / Patch
2026-02-22

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

Published 7 months ago (Feb 21, 2026 7:00 pm EST)

Community Release Security / Patch
2026-02-15

On Call Brief – Week of February 15–21, 2026

Published 8 months ago (Feb 14, 2026 7:00 pm EST)

Community Release Security / Patch
2026-02-08

On Call Brief – Week of February 8–14, 2026

Published 8 months ago (Feb 7, 2026 7:00 pm EST)

Community Release Security / Patch