Plan for Arcadia
Plan for Arcadia — Recording
Executive Summary
January all-hands for the Constellation org. Celebrated strong January metrics (47 PRs, 99.7% uptime). Announced Arcadia integration as Q1 priority. Addressed on-call burnout with rotation changes. Engineering blog launching in February.
Key Topics
January accomplishments: shipped 47 PRs, closed 23 bugs, 99.7% uptime
Arcadia integration officially kicked off — Q1 flagship project
New hire onboarding: 2 backend engineers starting Feb 3
Team health survey results: 8.2/10 overall satisfaction, concerns about on-call load
Related Topics
Decisions
Arcadia integration is the #1 priority for all Constellation teams in Q1
Rotate on-call lead every 2 weeks instead of monthly to reduce burnout
Monthly team social events budget approved ($500/month)
Engineering blog to launch in February — volunteers needed for first posts
Action Items(1/4 done)
Prepare onboarding docs for new hires
Assigned to Sarah Chen
Build new on-call rotation schedule (2-week cadence)
Assigned to Casey O'Brien
Draft engineering blog launch plan
Assigned to Priya Patel
Plan February team social event
Assigned to Tom Bradley
People Notes
Great energy from the whole team — January was a strong month
Casey raised the on-call burnout issue empathetically — team appreciated it
Lin Wei volunteered for the first engineering blog post on SRE practices
Product Feedback
Internal tools team requests better staging environment reliability
Deployment rollback automation still a pain point