GenAI demos are easy. Production is where everything breaks. In this episode, Eduardo Ordax, Principal GTM GenAI at AWS, breaks down what actually stops companies from shipping reliable AI systems, and why the real blockers have little to do with technology. We dig into the culture problems that slow down adoption, the endless cycle of experimentation, and why non-deterministic LLMs don’t fit neatly into traditional web-app architectures. Eduardo also shares what he’s seeing across industries...
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GenAI demos are easy. Production is where everything breaks. In this episode, Eduardo Ordax, Principal GTM GenAI at AWS, breaks down what actually stops companies from shipping reliable AI systems, and why the real blockers have little to do with technology. We dig into the culture problems that slow down adoption, the endless cycle of experimentation, and why non-deterministic LLMs don’t fit neatly into traditional web-app architectures. Eduardo also shares what he’s seeing across industries...
The Golden Path to Nowhere: When Platforms Undermine Reliability with Chase Roberts (Northflank)
Humans of Reliability
27 minutes
7 months ago
The Golden Path to Nowhere: When Platforms Undermine Reliability with Chase Roberts (Northflank)
Internal platforms promise speed, consistency, and scale — but what happens when they become a distraction? In this episode, Chase Roberts, COO at Northflank, joins Sylvain Kalache to examine the quiet ways platforms erode developer experience when not planned carefully. From abandoned golden paths to shadow deployments and brittle YAML pipelines, Chase walks us through: Why early PaaS got developer experience right and what it missed The cultural bias toward building over bu...
Humans of Reliability
GenAI demos are easy. Production is where everything breaks. In this episode, Eduardo Ordax, Principal GTM GenAI at AWS, breaks down what actually stops companies from shipping reliable AI systems, and why the real blockers have little to do with technology. We dig into the culture problems that slow down adoption, the endless cycle of experimentation, and why non-deterministic LLMs don’t fit neatly into traditional web-app architectures. Eduardo also shares what he’s seeing across industries...
