The Four Ages of Reliability Engineering
From sysadmins on pagers to autonomous AI agents — tracing the four distinct eras of reliability engineering and why we're entering the most transformative one yet.
From sysadmins on pagers to autonomous AI agents — tracing the four distinct eras of reliability engineering and why we're entering the most transformative one yet.
Before handing the pager to an AI, we need a map of the territory. We survey the 2025–2026 SRE landscape to identify which domains are ready for autonomous agents and which remain firmly human.
