On-Call Survival Kit for Backend Engineers

Production incidents don’t give you time to think. They give you minutes.

This kit is a survival runbook for backend engineers on-call — designed to be used under pressure. No theory. No fluff. Just clear steps you can follow when your brain isn’t working.

Inside you’ll get:

• The First 10 Minutes Rule (what to do + what NOT to do)
• A fast Incident Triage Decision Tree (DB vs API vs Infra vs External)
• Database Incident Playbook (pool exhaustion, deadlocks, slow queries, failed migrations, lock contention)
• API / Application Incident Playbook (latency spikes, error explosions, thread pool exhaustion, memory leaks, circuit breaker failures)
• Observability order: metrics → logs → traces (where to look first)
• Slack templates for incident updates, escalation, and resolution
• Post-incident checklist: postmortems, RCA, action items
• Printable Quick Reference pages

Who this is for

• Backend engineers who rotate on-call
• Senior engineers who want calmer incidents
• Tech leads who want a repeatable incident process

Outcome
You’ll stop guessing and start following a process — so incidents get solved faster with less panic.

⚠️ This product is included in the Production Incident Survival System.

Get the full system here:

👉 https://devrimozcay.gumroad.com/l/sycbns