Certo Modo

Reliability Rebels, Ep 9: Jon Reeve

Let’s say engineers want to investigate a production issue. Today, they typically face a maze of dashboards they’ve never seen, tools they haven’t been…

Dec 15 • Amin Astaneh

October 2025

Reliability Rebels, Ep 8: Aaron "Checo" Pacheco

Before “observability,” we just had plain old monitoring- checking if servers were up and SSHing in when things went sideways.

Oct 29 • Amin Astaneh

September 2025

Reliability Rebels, Ep 7: Sebastian Vietz

I posted on LinkedIn a couple of weeks back, venting about the term “AI SRE”- and how it risks reducing the entire discipline to just incident response.

Sep 8 • Amin Astaneh

July 2025

Webinar: Assessing SLO Maturity

Last year, I shared a framework for defining and using Effective SLOs- helping teams understand the health of their systems to guide real…

Jul 30 • Amin Astaneh

Reliability Rebels, Episode 6: Chris Evans

Automation without strategy won’t make your team more efficient.

Jul 13 • Amin Astaneh

April 2025

Reliability Rebels, Ep 5: Derek Brown

Working at a big tech company is like living on another planet- everything from infrastructure management to incident response operates on a completely…

Apr 6 • Amin Astaneh

March 2025

Reliability Rebels, Ep 4: Kat Gaines

Kat Gaines, Senior Manager of Developer Relations at PagerDuty, shares her perspective on how customer support organizations have the 𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁…

Mar 17 • Amin Astaneh

February 2025

SRE is Ops With Boundaries

Join fellow SRE Paige Cruz and yours truly on an exploration of my history being on-call, using multiple generations of observability tools, and how to…

Feb 2 • Amin Astaneh

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January 2025

Reliability Rebels Podcast: Ep 3

Not all production incidents are created equal.

Jan 6 • Amin Astaneh

December 2024

2024 In Review

2024 was a very eventful year in the tech industry, with Certo Modo being no exception to the rule.

Dec 31, 2024 • Amin Astaneh

November 2024

New Podcast: Reliability Rebels

Over the past couple years, I’ve had the privilege to be a guest on several tech podcasts (and will continue to do so), however I decided to created my…

Nov 10, 2024 • Amin Astaneh

Offer: Looking for Case Study Clients

As you know, this Substack provides free information on how to best launch, operate, and scale production systems using DevOps and SRE. If you’re…

Nov 7, 2024 • Amin Astaneh