Your Ops Review is Theater, and That's the Point

00:00 What ops reviews are and why AWS runs them every week. 06:51 Why the theater of ops reviews matters more than the metrics. 11:11 How error budgets make reliability standards legible across the organization. 19:11 Why software stays a team sport even as AI rewrites the code. 29:22 How LLMs made testing and formal verification affordable for every team. 36:45 What it actually takes to start an ops review program. Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta talks with Aleks Rudzitis, Principal Engineer at AWS, about how the structure and theater of ops reviews can turn reliability into a shared organizational value. Aleks explains how error budgets make reliability standards concrete rather than aspirational, why async reports can't replace the psychological weight of a live meeting with leadership, and how AI has made it feasible to backfill tests and even formal verification proofs that were previously too labor-intensive to justify. He also shares what it takes to get an ops review program off the ground in organizations that don't already have the habit. Follow on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IqNLJN... Follow on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/br...