Code isn’t the only thing causing your production failures
About this episode
Ryan discusses with Anish Agarwal the complexities of production failures beyond just code issues and the role of AI in software development.
Ryan sits down with Anish Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Traversal, to chat about why AI coding agents have made writing code easier but running it safely in production harder, why production failures are really caused by interactions between systems and not just the code itself, and how teams can troubleshoot more effectively when traditional observability tools are not enough for agentic AI workflows. Episode notes: Traversal is an AI-powered autonomous SRE for complex software systems with automatic triage alerts, root cause investigation, and incident prevention at petabyte scale. Connect with Anish on LinkedIn or reach out to him at anish@traversal.com . Our sixteenth Annual Developer Survey is now open and we want to hear your thoughts on all things software. Take the survey now ! Congrats to user aioobe on winning a Populist badge for their answer to Javascript a=b=c statements . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
People in this episode
Host: Ryan
Guest: Anish Agarwal
Topics covered
- AI coding agents
- production failures
- system interactions
- troubleshooting
- observability tools
Keywords
- AI
- production failures
- observability
- troubleshooting
- software systems
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Traversal
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