Reliability Enablers

Ash Patel & Sebastian Vietz

Software reliability is a tough topic for engineers in many organizations. The Reliability Enablers (Ash Patel and Sebastian Vietz) know this from experience. Join us as we demystify reliability jargon like SRE, DevOps, and more. We interview experts and share practical insights. Our mission is to help you boost your success in reliability-enabling areas like observability, incident response, release engineering, and more. read.srepath.com

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Reliability Enablers

Episodes (70)

Dec 2, 2025 You (and AI) can't automate reliability away
Jul 15, 2025 #67 Why the SRE Book Fails Most Orgs — Lessons from a Google Veteran
Jul 1, 2025 #66 - Unpacking 2025 SRE Report’s Damning Findings

Reliability Enablers

Dec 2, 2025
28¼ minutes
26 MB

What if the hardest part of reliability has nothing to do with tooling or automation? Jennifer Petoff explains why real reliability comes from the human workflows wrapped around the engineering work. Everyone seems to think AI will automate reliability away. I keep hearing the same story: “Our tooling will catch it.” “Copilots will reduce operational load.” “Automation will mitigate incidents before they happen.” But here’s a hard truth to swallow: AI only automates the mechanical parts of reliability — the machine in the machine. The hard parts haven...

Reliability Enablers

You (and AI) can't automate reliability away

Ash Patel & Sebastian Vietz

00:00 -28:20