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Dan Slimmon
Incident Response Trainer
Stop asking who broke the system. Start asking which hypothesis the evidence supports. Dan Slimmon brings the scientific method to incidents—and explains why the best commanders need social range.
"Our goal is to make it easy for employees to come in and run an incident without needing deep technical knowledge about the system. Rootly has made this easier by allowing us to automate a lot of the “hand-holding" someone needs when they’re first navigating an incident."
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Mariano Cocirio
Staff Software Engineer at Vercel
Serverless promised that developers could forget the server. AI workloads brought it back. Mariano Cocirio explains why long-running, stateful inference needs a new hybrid architecture.
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Adriana Villela
Principal DevRel at Dynatrace
You can't build reliable systems with responders who are afraid to speak. Adriana Villela connects observability, psychological safety, burnout, and the voices technical teams too often miss.
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Sean Goedecke
Staff Software Engineer at GitHub
Sean Goedecke uses LLMs every day—and still draws a hard line around parts of the codebase. His rule isn't ideological; it comes down to who can debug the result when production breaks.
No matter how good a new teammate is, a lot of their success is in your hands.
Discover 5 models of compensation for on-call I was once at a rooftop party with a doctor on her day off: everybody was vibing to a great DJ, escaping Barcelona's summer heat with a beer or a mojito. However, she couldn't drink at all, not until 20:00:00. She was on-call and couldn't let loose. She
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Steve McGhee
Reliability Advocate
Steve McGhee read the DOS manual cover to cover, spent 12 years inside Google SRE, then left to correct what the industry misunderstood. His underrated reliability skill isn't a tool—it's reading.
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Hannah Hammonds
Service Delivery Lead
Hannah Hammonds treats service delivery as a partnership between engineering and its users—not a queue of incident reports. She shares how mentorship helped her build the confidence to lead it.
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Gastón Rial Saibene
SRE Team Lead
Gastón Rial Saibene found reliability through curiosity, not a career plan. He shares the advice aspiring SREs should ignore, the book he keeps recommending, and his odds in a zombie apocalypse.
To become battle-tested, you need to go through battles, not just read books or mentor newcomers. Both are helpful but the stakes are low. On the other hand, high stake jobs, such as running a big project or managing a team, are hard to get when you lack experience. So how can we solve this dilemma?
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Nuno Tomás
Founder at isDown.app
Nuno Tomás turned an engineer's frustration with scattered status pages into isDown.app. He discusses founder tradeoffs, honest incident communication, and the alert fatigue still left to solve.
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