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If you have been on-call long enough, you know the feeling. A deploy ships Tuesday afternoon, the team signs off, and by 11 p.m. your pager lights up. You spend the next hour staring at dashboards asking yourself: did this start before the rollout or after? Who changed what, and…
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The Fighter Pilot Framework That Explains Your Incident Queue In military strategy, the OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) is a framework developed by US Air Force Colonel John Boyd. Drawing on his own combat experience, Boyd studied why certain pilots won aerial engagements and surmised that the pilot who…
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Alert fatigue is one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise operations. When a single infrastructure incident triggers a cascade of alerts across network, security, compute, and database monitoring systems simultaneously, operations teams are left drowning in noise rather than investigating root cause. This “alert storm” phenomenon doesn’t just slow…
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On a rain-soaked evening in San Francisco, a group of reliability leaders gathered for an intimate fireside chat on “Reliability in the Age of AI.” Despite traffic snarls and damp weather, the room was full—clear evidence that the SRE community senses a structural shift underway. Our panel featured: Chirag Mehta,…
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On a recent vacation in Cancún, Mexico, I was walking along the beach on a cloudy morning when the sun began to break through the clouds. That moment—subtle at first, then unmistakable—sparked a familiar feeling. It reminded me of the thought process behind naming our company, Ciroos, and of a…
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Discover how AI-driven cross-domain correlation makes AI root cause analysis accurate enough to transform incident investigation and slash MTTR for modern SRE teams. Introduction How valuable are AI tools for SREs? This question has sparked spirited debate across forums like Reddit and at major industry and reliability conferences. To…
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Ananda Rajagopal, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Ciroos As one of the major technological innovations of 2025—“the year of agentic AI,” in the words of Jensen Huang—it was fitting that a summit on this topic was held at UC Berkeley last Saturday on August 2, 2025. Such conferences provide a…
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Ananda Rajagopal, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Ciroos In every industry and team today, the debate is how far AI can take human tasks toward full autonomy. Site reliability engineers (SREs) are asking the same question. At SRECon25 this year, the closing plenary — “AIOps: Prove It!” — called out…
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