Speed and Resilience

How to Build Reliability Guardrails for AI-Driven Development

The promise of AI is that we can get more done faster with less. Unfortunately, going that fast isn’t without risk.

If we’re going to keep moving at the speed of AI, how can we move fast without breaking things? And, more importantly, how can we maintain customer trust and reliability?

Companies need to embrace reliability guardrails that are integrated into the agentic pipeline to find and fix reliability risks before they become incidents.

This whitepaper shows you how to create and automate those guardrails across your organization to keep your systems resilient at the speed of AI.

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About the Authors

Jordan Pritchard

Director of Infrastructure & Site Reliability Engineering

Michael Kehoe

Architect of reliable, scalable infrastructure

Rodney Lester

Technical Lead, Reliability Pillar of Well Architected Program

Tammy Butow

Principal SRE

Jay Holler

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

Ramin Keene

Founder

In this ebook, you'll learn:

• What reliability guardrails are and why they’re essential for AI-driven development.

• How to use AI capabilities to create an agentic resilience loop.

• How to AI integrate guardrails into your agentic pipeline and reporting process.

  • Incident classification: SEV descriptions and levels, and SEV and time-to-detection (TTD) timelines

  • Organization-wide critical service monitoring, including key dashboards and KPI metrics emails

  • Service ownership and metrics for organizations maintaining a microservices architecture

  • Effective on-call principles for site reliability engineers, including rotation structure, alert threshold maintenance, and escalation practices

  • Chaos Engineering practices to identify random and unpredictable behavior in your system

  • Monitoring and metrics to detect incidents caused by self-healing systems

  • Creating a high-reliability culture by listening to people in your organization

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