Reliability Enablers

Real DevOps happens between commits, not pipelines

Your CI/CD runs faster than your feedback.

Dec 16 • Ash Patel

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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.

Dec 9 • Ash Patel

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You (and AI) can't automate reliability away

What if the hardest part of reliability has nothing to do with tooling or automation?

Dec 2 • Ash Patel

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28:19

November 2025

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…

Nov 18 • Ash Patel

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October 2025

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…

Oct 28 • Ash Patel

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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…

Oct 24 • Ash Patel

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July 2025

#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…

Jul 15 • Ash Patel

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#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…

Jul 1 • Ash Patel

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30:15

June 2025

#65 - In Critical Systems, 99.9% Isn’t Reliable — It’s a Liability

In most SaaS, 99.9% uptime gets you promoted. In critical infrastructure like the energy sector, it gets flagged as a failure mode.

Jun 17 • Ash Patel

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April 2025

A video on why reliability doesn't scale like it should

"Why reliability work gets sidelined — even when everyone says it matters" (A takeaway from a former Google SRE Director featured in this video)

Apr 1 • Ash Patel

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January 2025

#64 - Using AI to Reduce Observability Costs

Exploring how to manage observability tool sprawl, reduce costs, and leverage AI to make smarter, data-driven decisions.

Jan 28 • Ash Patel

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November 2024

#63 - Does "Big Observability" Neglect Mobile?

Andrew Tunall is a product engineering leader focused on pushing the boundaries of reliability with a current focus on mobile observability.

Nov 12, 2024 • Ash Patel

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