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Hosted by Rootly · technology · EN-US · 39 episodes
Behind every reliable software system, there are people working hard to keep it online. Humans of Reliability is a series that spotlights the engineers, leaders, and innovators at the heart of incident management and system reliability. Through candid conversations, we explore the challenges, lessons, and personal journeys of those navigating complex technical landscapes to ensure the systems we rely on run smoothly. From unforgettable incident stories to favorite tools, workflows, and hobbies, Humans of Reliability uncovers the human side of technology—offering insights and inspiration for anyone passionate about building and maintaining resilient systems. https://rootly.com/humans-of-reliability
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Signup to Generate a PitchBehind every reliable software system, there are people working hard to keep it online. Humans of Reliability is a series that spotlights the engineers, leaders, and innovators at the heart of incident management and system reliability.
Humans of Reliability is hosted by Rootly. The show has published 39 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Your next IDP is a library of agent skills w/ PostHog" (31 August 2026, 31 minutes), "Your AI agents are lost: give them a graph w/ Anthony Alcaraz (AWS)" (21 July 2026, 25 minutes), and "AI vs. AI: From Alert Fatigue to Agentic Cybersecurity" (15 July 2026, 26 minutes).
Humans of Reliability publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 28 minutes across 39 episodes.
Booking probability for Humans of Reliability is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Humans of Reliability requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Humans of Reliability's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Humans of Reliability are IT Services & Software Development. Humans of Reliability has a technology audience.
Rootly hosts Humans of Reliability, a technology show with 39 episodes published.
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Humans of Reliability
What happens when AI agents become direct users of your infrastructure? Michael Kutsch , Staff SRE and Team Lead for Cloud Foundations at PostHog , is building toward an agent-native platform. His team gives agents an...
Humans of Reliability
The race to build capable AI agents often focuses on model intelligence. Anthony Alcaraz argues that the harder, more durable problem is context: giving agents the right information, relationships, tools, and...
Humans of Reliability
AI is giving attackers the ability to scale phishing, discover vulnerabilities, and build increasingly autonomous malware. But it is also helping defenders investigate alerts, eliminate noise, and respond before threats...
Humans of Reliability
<p>Every pilot who's never had an engine failure is still ready for one. The same can't be said for most software engineers facing their first major incident. </p><p>Hamed Silatani, co-founder and CEO of Uptime Labs...
Humans of Reliability
<p>For nine years, Maria Vechtomova was shouting about monitoring. Nobody cared, until LLMs arrived. <br/><br/>As co-founder of Cauchy, Databricks MVP, and one of the most followed voices in MLOps, Maria has watched the...
Humans of Reliability
<p>Most incident response advice focuses on tools, alerts, and post-mortems. Gandhi Mathi Nathan Kumar, Principal Incident Commander at Twilio, with 14 years running calls that have pulled in up to 100 responders...
Humans of Reliability
<p>A centralized SRE team of 600 engineers as the first line of defense for every incident works - until the business asks you to spread that responsibility across 6,000. <br/><br/>Cliff Snyder, senior SRE at Multimedia...
Humans of Reliability
<p>Every engineering org says they want to improve reliability — but most can't even agree on what "good" looks like. Ganesh Datta, Co-Founder and CTO of Cortex, has spent the better part of a decade helping companies...
Humans of Reliability
<p>The self-healing systems that SREs have dreamed about for a decade aren't a distant promise anymore — they're already being built, and the biggest barrier left is cultural. </p><p>Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify, has...
Episode #4
<p>Most reliability engineering happens after something breaks. Will Wilson thinks that's the wrong place to be. As co-founder and CEO of Antithesis, the autonomous testing platform that just raised $105M in a Series A...
Episode #3
<p>Burnout doesn't announce itself. For Stephen Townsend, SRE team lead and host of the Slight Reliability podcast, it crept in over months of mounting pressure on a massive transformation program, and announced itself...
Episode #2
<p>Code has never been easier to write. With AI copilots and agentic coding tools, spinning up features feels almost effortless. But production systems don’t run on vibes, they run on reliability.</p><p>In this episode...
Episode #1
<p>Many companies don’t invest in incident management until something goes wrong. commonsku took a different path.</p><p>In this episode of Humans of Reliability, Sylvain sits down with Dileshni Jayasingha, VP of...
Episode #23
<p>Shipping systems powered by LLMs would be hard enough if the models stayed the same. But in reality, they don’t. Models get updated and deprecated at a pace traditional software wouldn’t. All while teams are still...
Episode #22
<p>GenAI demos are easy. Production is where everything breaks. In this episode, Eduardo Ordax, Principal GTM GenAI at AWS, breaks down what actually stops companies from shipping reliable AI systems, and why the real...
Episode #21
<p>In this episode, Julien Simon, longtime voice in the open-source ML world, reminds us that even in the era of GenAI, reliability fundamentals haven’t changed.</p><p>Julien breaks down why calling “the same model”...
Episode #20
<p>Only 50% of companies monitor their ML systems. Building observability for AI is not simple: it goes beyond 200 OK pings. In this episode, Sylvain Kalache sits down with Conor Brondsdon (Galileo) to unpack why...
Episode #19
<p>Is “good code” still the right measure of engineering success in an AI-driven world? In this episode of Humans of Reliability, Rob Zuber, CircleCI CTO, joins Sylvain to explore how coding assistants are reshaping...
Episode #18
<p>What does it really take to move from firefighting incidents to building reliability at scale? In this episode of Humans of Reliability, Shery Brauner (Razor, ex-Zalando) shares her unique journey from frontend and...
Episode #17
<p>Sylvain Kalache sits down with Brian Shaw, Senior Engineering Leader at Uphold, to explore the reliability challenges that arise when operating at the intersection of traditional finance and crypto...
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