Amin Astaneh
Amin Astaneh is the founder of Certo Modo, a consultancy that helps technology companies strengthen reliability and operational practices. Drawing on two decades of experience scaling production systems of all sizes from scrappy startups to Big Tech companies, he brings both technical depth and hard-earned practical insight. He is also the host of the Reliability Rebels podcast, where he explores the social side of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering. When he’s not helping teams, Amin is a digital nomad-often found camping out of his customized pickup truck and exploring new places.
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Session
Most teams will tell you they have SLOs. Most of them are doomed to fail. Not because their metrics are bad or their tooling is wrong, but because reliability has no seat at the table. SLOs are useless unless they inform your roadmap. If error budget exhaustion doesn't change what gets built next sprint, you don't have an SLO program. You have an expensive monitoring system.
This talk draws on firsthand experience leading SRE initiatives and tech consulting to name the organizational patterns that make SLO programs fail, regardless of how much effort teams put in. You'll leave with a five-question diagnostic you can run at your next retro to find out exactly where your organization stands, and a clear picture of what it actually takes to give reliability the authority to change behavior.