The Follow-the-Sun Field Log: Running an SRE Rotation Across Lisbon, Singapore and Austin in One Quarter
Quick note before we start. At 03:17 on a Tuesday in Lisbon, a watch buzzes against a hotel pillow. Two seconds later a phone screen lights the ceiling: P1, payments-writer-secondary, error rate seventy-eight percent. The on-call lead is twelve thousand kilometres from her desk. The team's five-minute escalation service-level objective is already running. The next ninety seconds will decide whether this is a clean save or a long retro.