The Critical Resource Is You: Practical Destressing for On-Call Engineers

You know how to triage, diagnose, and resolve problems in your software and hardware systems — but can you do the same with your own biological stress response? In this talk we’ll look at the physiological experience of chronic and acute stress: the slow burn of on-call rotations and the hyper-alertness of incident response. We’ll address the observability challenge that makes it hard for many of us to notice stress before it becomes burnout. And we’ll unpack a few simple but powerful ways to use biology in your favor to recover from even the most intense incident.