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Braintrust by Cortex · July 2 · 41 min

Your Ops Review is Theater, and That's the Point: Aleks Rudzitis on Turning Reliability into a Shared Value

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta talks with Aleks Rudzitis, Principal Engineer at AWS, about how the structure and theater of ops reviews can turn reliability into a shared organizational value. Aleks explains how error budgets make reliability standards concrete rather than aspirational, why async reports can't replace the psychological weight of a live meeting with leadership, and how AI has made it feasible to backfill tests and even formal verification proofs that were previously too labor-intensive to justify. He also shares what it takes to get an ops review program off the ground in organizations that don't already have the habit.

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Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta talks with Aleks Rudzitis, Principal Engineer at AWS, about how the structure and theater of ops reviews can turn reliability into a shared organizational value.

Aleks explains how error budgets make reliability standards concrete rather than aspirational, why async reports can't replace the psychological weight of a live meeting with leadership, and how AI has made it feasible to backfill tests and even formal verification proofs that were previously too labor-intensive to justify. He also shares what it takes to get an ops review program off the ground in organizations that don't already have the habit.

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