Hosted by Amin Astaneh · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 13 episodes
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The Reliability Rebels Podcast explores making software and systems more reliable by challenging the status quo. We sometimes have to challenge past decisions, existing technology, and even company culture when improving how we run production. This podcast will explore real-life examples from our guests and reveal insights and techniques applicable to your career and team. Intended audience- humans in the tech industry, especially software engineers and their leaders, product managers, and DevOps/Site Reliability Engineering practitioners.
Amin Astaneh hosts Reliability Rebels, a technology show with 13 episodes published.
Stephen Townshend, host of Slight Reliability and Team Lead for SRE & DevOps at BlueCurrent, joins Amin to talk about mental health in tech- anxiety, burnout, and why leaders who do the inner work make the industry less
In this special episode, the tables are turned — host Amin Astaneh becomes the guest. Stephen Townshend, host of Slight Reliability, interviews Amin about rebuilding his life as a nomad: traveling North America, living o
AI agents are triaging incidents and writing runbooks- but are LLMs actually the right tool for operational work? Sylvain Kalache, Head of AI Labs at Rootly, shares research on where AI SRE tools add real value, where th
Explores the 'AI code tsunami' and how massive, AI-generated code changes are forcing engineering teams to rethink traditional code reviews, observability, and the future of SRE roles. The conversation highlights a shift
Discusses the 'complexity cult' of the current observability industry, how the open-source TUI tool Gonzo can reveal infrastructure insights using novel use of LLMs for sentiment analysis, and the vision of more accessib
Explores monitoring and observability evolution, examining how observability costs now consume 15-25% of infrastructure budgets with Aaron Pacheco from Ottermon.ai. Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/aa
Discusses how naming conventions shape industry perceptions, with focus on AI SRE terminology with Sebastian Vietz from Compass Digital. Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/sebastian-vietz.html.
Explores whether automation through AI actually reduces toil or just shifts it elsewhere with Chris Evans from Incident.io. Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/chris-evans.html.
Compares infrastructure management at large tech companies versus smaller organizations with Derek Brown from Plaid. Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/derek-brown.html.
Examines incident management beyond technical fixes, emphasizing communication and customer experience with Kat Gaines from PagerDuty. Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/kat-gaines.html.
Chronicles resolving a complex production incident at Meta lasting over three days with Michael Abed from Datadog. Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/michael-abed.html.
Reflects on early DevOps initiatives at Acquia with Ricardo Amaro, who authored a chapter on ML-driven capacity planning in Seeking SRE. Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/ricardo-amaro.html.
Inaugural episode exploring technical debt, testing approaches, and blameless culture with software engineer Rick Gorman. Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/rick-gorman.html.
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Reliability Rebels is hosted by Amin Astaneh. The show is categorised under technology (business) and has published 13 episodes.
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