AI Reliability Engineering

Why SRE is a key skill in the age of AI-generated black boxes and how to renovate the traditional toolbox for the new era

3 hrs ago • Alex Ewerlöf

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April 2026

Reliability Engineering for Air-Gapped Systems

Tips and tricks to work around inaccessible observability

Apr 3 • Alex Ewerlöf

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February 2026

Multi-Agent System Reliability

4 patterns to tame multi-agent systems for reliability

Feb 19 • Alex Ewerlöf

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December 2025

Emergent properties

What are nominal, weak and strong emergent properties and how to identify and mitigate their negative impact in system design?

Dec 5, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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August 2025

SLI Evolution Stages

How to dodge vanity metrics and measure the right service level indicator and why?

Aug 27, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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SLI Compass: Fidelity and Granularity

A Mental Model to Assess Existing SLIs and Evaluate New Ones. We discuss 2 dimension: fidelity shows how closely your SLI is measuring the user…

Aug 8, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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Service Level Topology

Visualizing the service consumption and measurement topology while avoiding the most common SLI/SLO pitfalls

Aug 3, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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June 2025

SLA vs SLO

Demystifying the most common misconception in Service Level jargon

Jun 21, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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May 2025

When a team is too big

What signs to look for and how to increase productivity with all-round skillset

May 15, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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February 2025

Premature optimization

A mental model to detect and prevent optimizing the wrong thing, at the wrong time, or for the wrong reasons

Feb 24, 2025 • Alex Ewerlöf

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December 2024

Mapping reliability to accountability

Holding engineering leadership accountable for the reliability of engineering artifacts

Dec 6, 2024 • Alex Ewerlöf

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November 2024

SLI vs KPI

Is Service Level Indicator (SLI) the same as Key Performance Indicator (KPI)?

Nov 6, 2024 • Alex Ewerlöf

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