Reliability Rebels

Amin Astaneh

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.

Episodes

  1. Episode 9: Jon Reeve

    14/12/2025

    Episode 9: Jon Reeve

    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 accessible observability experiences for software engineers. Guest: Jon Reeve, founder and CPO of ControlTheory (controltheory.com). Show Notes Available at https://podcast.certomodo.io/jon-reeve.html.

    42 min
  2. Episode 8: Aaron 'Checo' Pacheco

    29/10/2025

    Episode 8: Aaron 'Checo' Pacheco

    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/aaron-pacheco.html.

    53 min
  3. Episode 7: Sebastian Vietz

    07/09/2025

    Episode 7: Sebastian Vietz

    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.

    1h 6m
  4. Episode 6: Chris Evans

    13/07/2025

    Episode 6: Chris Evans

    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.

    51 min
  5. Episode 5: Derek Brown

    31/03/2025

    Episode 5: Derek Brown

    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.

    55 min
  6. Episode 4: Kat Gaines

    14/03/2025

    Episode 4: Kat Gaines

    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.

    59 min
  7. Episode 3: Michael Abed

    05/01/2025

    Episode 3: Michael Abed

    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.

    47 min
  8. Episode 2: Ricardo Amaro

    18/11/2024

    Episode 2: Ricardo Amaro

    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.

    55 min
  9. Episode 1: Rick Gorman

    10/11/2024

    Episode 1: Rick Gorman

    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.

    1h 13m
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About

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.

Information

  • Creator
    Amin Astaneh
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Reliability Rebels
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