Welcome to the The Incidentally Reliable Podcast, where we dive into the world of engineering and bring you first-hand experiences and captivating insights from experts in the ever-evolving front lines of DevOps and Site Reliability.
With a new guest every episode, learn how elusive reliability can be as we peek into their journey in the industry so far, engineering innovations made in distress, manoeuvred nightmares, their war-room stories, and their opinions on the current state of the space.
High Cardinality, High Stakes | Incidentally Reliable S3 E3
Host Jim Hirschauer sits down with our guest Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering at Splunk and a founding member of OpenTelemetry, to talk through the real cost of high cardinality data, why the OpenTelemetry Collector works best as a control plane and not just a forwarder, and why SLO based alerts beat threshold based ones every time. They also get into the level of effort it actually takes to tame observability data and how to stop paging for things that do not matter.
🎙️ Incidentally Reliable is brought to you by Xurrent.
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Guest: Steve Flanders, Senior Director of Engineering at Splunk
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24 Jul 2026
Never Let AI Touch Prod Alone | Incidentally Reliable S3 E2
Host Jim Hirschauer sits down with our guest Zahan Parekh, founder of Gimic, to talk runbooks, why they go stale, and why AI still needs a human in the loop before it touches production. They also get into governance, access control, and audit trails, the guardrails regulated industries rely on before letting AI near prod.🎙️ Incidentally Reliable is brought to you by Xurrent. 🔗 Learn more: https://www.xurrent.com/incident-management-response (https://www.xurrent.com/incident-management-response)Guest: Zahan Parekh, Founder of Gimic 🔗 https://gimic-tech.com/ (https://gimic-tech.com/ )🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahan-parekh-1a5bb21b0/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahan-parekh-1a5bb21b0/)#IncidentallyReliable #SRE #DevOps #AIAutomation #IncidentManagement #Xurrent #Podcast #ProductionEngineering #platformengineering
13 Feb 2026
The Zenduty Journey, AI-Native Response, and a New Host | Incidentally Reliable S3E1
We are back for Season 3 of the Incidentally Reliable podcast! 🎙️In this season premiere, we are kicking off a new chapter as part of Xurrent. Our new host, Jim Hirschauer, sits down with podcast veteran and Zenduty co-founder, Vishwa, for a special throwback episode.They take a trip down memory lane to uncover the real story behind Zenduty, why it was built, how this podcast started, and the massive "needle in the haystack" observability problem that still plagues SRE teams today.💡 In this episode, we cover:-The transition from Zenduty to Xurrent: What’s changing?-Why observability tools often create more noise, not less.-The "Culture vs. Tooling" debate: Why you can't buy reliability.Jim’s vision for Season 3.----------------------------------------------------------------------🔗 Connect with us:Website: https://www.xurrent.com/podcastLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xurrent/#SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #Podcast #Zenduty #Xurrent #DevOps #IncidentManagement #TechPodcast #SeasonPremiere
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