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Governing Autonomous Reliability
By Marcel Koert
A guide to bridging the governance gap for agentic AI and autonomous systems, focusing on delegation, accountability, and executable policy.
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Essential SRE: The Future of SRE
By Marcel Koert
The intersection of Site Reliability Engineering and Autonomous Systems — AI-driven operations, self-healing infrastructure, and the future of the SRE role.
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Essential SRE: It's Not the Tools, It's Us
By Marcel Koert
Why the human element — culture, on-call health, and cognitive load — is the real blocker to reliability, not the tooling.
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Essential SRE: Articles
By Marcel Koert
A collection of 200+ articles covering SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Computing, and AI in IT operations.
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Essential SRE: Way of Working
By Marcel Koert
A practical guide to building a real SRE team — clear ownership, practical process, and enough humanity to avoid chaos and burnout.
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Governing Autonomous Reliability argues that gap isn't a tooling problem. Autonomy is delegation, and delegation demands governance.
By 2028, Gartner projects a third of enterprise software will embed agentic AI, making day-to-day decisions on its own — yet only about one in five enterprises has mature governance for it. Marcel Koert begins by dismantling the default remedy: human-in-the-loop, showing why passive monitoring degrades into rubber-stamping — and what working oversight requires instead.
From there the book builds a complete operating discipline. A five-factor rubric sorts every decision into automate, require-approval, or never-delegate zones. Policy becomes executable code — versioned, tested, and enforced. Decision records modeled on aviation's flight data recorder make autonomous actions reconstructable after the fact.
Inside this book, you will learn:
Decision windows matched to machine speed and tiered escalation
The five-factor rubric for delegation zones
Executable policy as code and contestability frameworks
Accountability tests based on aviation and real-world AI failures
Regulatory compliance: EU AI Act, NIST RMF, ISO 42001, and more
Reliability economics, zero-trust identity for machines, and org design
In the fourth installment of the Essential SRE series, Marcel Koert explores the intersection of Site Reliability Engineering and Autonomous Systems. As infrastructure becomes increasingly complex and self-healing, the role of the SRE is transforming.
Essential SRE: The Future of SRE dives into how AI-driven operations, automated decision-making, and autonomous control loops are redefining what it means to keep systems stable. This book provides a roadmap for engineers and leaders to navigate the transition from manual intervention to high-level system orchestration.
Inside this book, you will learn:
The principles of Autonomous Site Reliability Engineering
How to build and manage self-healing infrastructure
The role of AI and Machine Learning in modern operations
Strategies for maintaining human oversight in automated systems
Future-proofing your SRE career for the age of autonomy
The third installment in the Essential SRE series. This book explores why the human element is the most critical component of Site Reliability Engineering. It's not just about the tools we use, but how we use them and how we work together as a team.
Essential SRE: It's Not the Tools, It's Us focuses on the cultural shifts, on-call health, and cognitive load issues that are the real blockers to reliability. If you want to build an SRE team that lasts, you need to focus on the people.
Inside this book, you will learn:
The human side of reliability engineering
Why culture outweighs tooling in high-performing teams
Practical strategies for better collaboration and communication
How to build resilient systems by focusing on the people who run them
A comprehensive collection of 200+ articles covering Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Computing, and Artificial Intelligence. This e-book compiles essential knowledge for SREs, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals seeking to master modern infrastructure and operations.
You do not build a real SRE team with alerts, dashboards, and good intentions.
You build it with clear ownership, practical process, operational discipline, and enough humanity to stop the work from turning into chaos, blame, and burnout.
Essential SRE: Way of Working is a practical Site Reliability Engineering book for SRE engineers who want to build something real. Not a slide deck version of SRE. Not a title change with no substance. A real team with clear ways of working, strong reliability habits, and processes that help instead of getting in the way.
This book goes straight at the reality of the job. Incidents are messy. Priorities collide. Toil grows quietly. Teams drift into firefighting. Communication breaks down under pressure. Reliability suffers long before the dashboards admit it.
That is why this book focuses on the part that matters most: how an SRE team actually works.
Inside this book, you will learn how to:
Build a real SRE team with clear roles and ownership
Create processes that improve reliability instead of adding bureaucracy
Use SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets in a practical way
Reduce toil, firefighting, and operational noise
Improve incident response, communication, and decision-making
Create accountability without losing trust and common sense
Balance strong engineering standards with the human reality of the work
This is not theory for perfect organisations with unlimited time and budget. It is for SRE engineers working in real environments, with real pressure, real systems, and real people.
If you want to help build an SRE team with good process, sharp operational thinking, and humanity at its core, this book will help you do it.
