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Humans, the pesky side of system design
Most reliability engineers hear ‘system design’ and picture diagrams wrangling load balancers, queues, and failover zones.
 • Ash Patel
You (and AI) can't automate reliability away
What if the hardest part of reliability has nothing to do with tooling or automation?
 • Ash Patel
28:19
Reliability engineers are the best SDLC problem solvers because...
they look at the system with fresh eyes and can spot patterns people too close to the problem have learned to ignore. I'll cover how you can do this…
 • Ash Patel
What a Slovak test engineer taught me about SRE career growth in a post-ZIRP world
This post was inspired by my chance meeting with a Slovak test engineer who had corporates fighting to hire him and sponsor his high-salary migration in…
 • Ash Patel
AWS us-east-1 sneezed, the world felt its breeze
Race conditions 101, a global ripple, and looking at our hidden dependencies. We'll go through questions, like "Why did one region dropping cause global…
 • Ash Patel
#67 Why the SRE Book Fails Most Orgs — Lessons from a Google Veteran
Listen now | Dave O'Connor has been an SRE leadership practitioner and coach for many years. Prior to this, he was an SRE and reliability leader at the…
 • Ash Patel
30:46
#66 - Unpacking 2025 SRE Report’s Damning Findings
This episode was prompted by the 2025 Catchpoint SRE Report, which dropped some damning but all-too-familiar findings. Sebastian joined me for this…
 • Ash Patel
30:15
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