# Sylvain Kalache

URL: https://www.sylvainkalache.com/

## Helping SREs succeed with AI.

AI Labs lead and DevRel at [Rootly](https://rootly.com/). Former Senior SRE at LinkedIn. Co-founded Holberton School, which trained thousands of engineers across 25 countries. I write, speak, and build communities around software reliability and engineering.

## Two decades helping engineers learn, connect, and ship.

Currently leading developer relations and [AI Labs at Rootly](https://rootly.com/), building open-source tools and research to advance reliability engineering in the AI era.

Previously co-founded [Holberton School](https://www.holbertonschool.com/), a venture-backed developer education startup that trained thousands of software engineers across 25 countries, backed by Jeff Weiner, Jerry Yang, and Solomon Hykes. Before that, senior SRE at LinkedIn, where I co-designed a patented self-healing infrastructure.

I also founded while42, a developer community of 3,000 engineers across 40 cities. I write for TechCrunch and The New Stack, speak at conferences like SREcon, and help SRE and platform teams navigate the AI ecosystem through articles, talks, and open-source projects.

Background: Developer Relations, AI Agents & MCP, Developer Education, Rootly AI Labs, Holberton School, Community Building, SRE & Reliability

## Explore

- [My Story](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/my-story.md)
- [Blog](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog.md)
- [Agent briefing and MCP setup](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/agent.md)
- [GitHub activity](https://github.com/sylvainkalache)

## Blog posts

- [Can Claude fix itself? From no to maybe](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/can-claude-fix-itself.md) (2026-09-24): An Anthropic engineer's answer shifted from no to maybe in six months. Three incidents show what Claude can investigate, fix, and still get wrong.
- [AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems.md) (2026-09-04): AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.
- [AI Writes the Code, But Humans Can't Review It All. Now What?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-writes-the-code-but-humans-cant-review-it-all.md) (2026-07-29): AI can generate code faster than humans can review it. Engineering teams must redesign review, reversibility, and accountability.

## Articles

- [LLMs Broke the SRE Runbook. Now What?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/llms-broke-the-sre-runbook-now-what.md) (2025-11-05; The New Stack): AI-generated code is outpacing traditional runbooks. How SRE teams are adapting their incident response playbooks for the LLM era.
- [Will LLMs and Vibe Coding Fuel a Developer Renaissance?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/will-llms-and-vibe-coding-fuel-a-developer-renaissance.md) (2025-07-09; The New Stack): Exploring whether AI-assisted coding tools will democratize software development or create new categories of hard-to-debug production issues.
- [Why Are Agent Protocols Like MCP and A2A Needed?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/why-are-agent-protocols-like-mcp-and-a2a-needed.md) (2025-05-21; The New Stack): Breaking down the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) standards — why interoperability matters for the next wave of AI agents.
- [Is AI-assisted coding an incident magnet?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/is-ai-assisted-coding-an-incident-magnet.md) (2025-05-15; LeadDev): AI-generated code ships faster but introduces subtle bugs that are harder to trace. What engineering leaders need to know about the reliability trade-offs.
- [Developers lose focus 1,200 times a day — how MCP could change that](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/developers-lose-focus-1-200-times-a-day-how-mcp-could-change-that.md) (2025-12-22; VentureBeat): Context switching kills developer productivity. How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) can reduce tool fragmentation and keep engineers in flow.
- [AI-First Platform Engineering: 3 Signals From PlatformCon](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-first-platform-engineering-3-signals-from-platformcon.md) (2025-08-25; The New Stack): Three emerging patterns from PlatformCon that signal how AI is reshaping internal developer platforms and platform team workflows.
- [kpack: Kubernetes-Native Build Automation With CI/CD Integration](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/kpack-kubernetes-native-build-automation-with-ci-cd-integration.md) (2025-04-04; CloudNativeNow): Using kpack to automate container image builds natively on Kubernetes with seamless CI/CD pipeline integration.
- [Vibe Coding Is Here — But Are You Ready for Incident Vibing?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/vibe-coding-is-here-but-are-you-ready-for-incident-vibing.md) (2025-03-19; The New Stack): If developers are vibe coding, SREs are now incident vibing. What happens when AI-generated code meets production reality.
- [Uplevelling Your Container Lifecycle Management](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/uplevelling-your-container-lifecycle-management.md) (2025-03-19; CloudNativeNow): Best practices for managing the full container lifecycle — from build to runtime to decommission.
- [Dependency and Runtime Management](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/dependency-and-runtime-management.md) (2025-03-19; CloudNativeNow): Strategies for managing dependencies and runtimes in containerized environments — keeping images secure and up to date.
- [Buildpacks Optimization, Portability and Lifecycle](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/buildpacks-optimization-portability-and-lifecycle.md) (2025-03-19; CloudNativeNow): Advanced buildpacks techniques for optimizing build times, ensuring portability across clouds, and managing lifecycle updates.
- [Modern PostgreSQL Deployment: 3 Cloud Native Approaches You Should Know](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/modern-postgresql-deployment-3-cloud-native-approaches-you-should-know.md) (2025-01-11; The New Stack): Comparing three cloud native approaches to deploying and managing PostgreSQL on Kubernetes — operators, managed services, and hybrid models.
- [Backstage Multicluster UI for Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/backstage-multicluster-ui-for-cloud-foundry-and-kubernetes.md) (2024-11-16; The New Stack): Building a unified developer portal with Backstage that spans both Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes clusters.
- [Boost Your Shipping Velocity With Argo and Buildpacks](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/boost-your-shipping-velocity-with-argo-and-buildpacks.md) (2024-11-11; The New Stack): Combining Argo Workflows with Cloud Native Buildpacks to create a fast, repeatable CI/CD pipeline that eliminates Dockerfile maintenance.
- [3 Ways To Improve Your Container Build Process](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/3-ways-to-improve-your-container-build-process.md) (2024-07-22; The New Stack): Practical techniques to speed up container builds, reduce image size, and improve reproducibility across development and CI environments.
- [Streamlined APM Integration in Cloud Native Buildpacks](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/streamlined-apm-integration-in-cloud-native-buildpacks.md) (2024-06-11; The New Stack): How to embed application performance monitoring directly into your buildpack pipeline without modifying application code.
- [How to Streamline the Java Application Containerization Process](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-to-streamline-the-java-application-containerization-process.md) (2024-01-30; CloudNativeNow): Simplifying Java app containerization with buildpacks — skip the Dockerfile complexity and let the platform handle the build.
- [How to push PaaS usage beyond 12-factor apps](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-to-push-paas-usage-beyond-12-factor-apps.md) (2023-12-10; TechCrunch): PaaS commands a $170B share of the cloud market, yet manual deployments persist. A practical framework for workload APIs that goes beyond Heroku-style apps.
- [Scaling on Kubernetes With Open Source Korifi](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/scaling-on-kubernetes-with-open-source-korifi.md) (2023-10-26; CloudNativeNow): How Korifi brings Cloud Foundry's developer experience to Kubernetes, enabling simple app scaling without deep K8s knowledge.
- [Deploy Multilanguage Apps to Kubernetes with Open Source Korifi](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/deploy-multilanguage-apps-to-kubernetes-with-open-source-korifi.md) (2023-09-15; The New Stack): Using Korifi to deploy polyglot applications to Kubernetes with the simplicity of Cloud Foundry's cf push experience.
- [How to Containerize a Python Application with Paketo Buildpacks](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-to-containerize-a-python-application-with-paketo-buildpacks.md) (2023-05-29; The New Stack): Step-by-step guide to containerizing Python apps using Paketo Buildpacks — no Dockerfile required.
- [3 Ways to Offset Kubernetes Complexity](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/3-ways-to-offset-kubernetes-complexity.md) (2023-05-18; CloudNativeNow): Practical strategies to reduce Kubernetes operational complexity — from platform abstractions to developer self-service portals.
- [4 Ways to Enhance Your Dockerfiles](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/4-ways-to-enhance-your-dockerfiles.md) (2023-05-04; The New Stack): Practical tips for writing better Dockerfiles — multi-stage builds, layer caching, security scanning, and image optimization.
- [Overcoming Kubernetes Namespace Limitations](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/overcoming-kubernetes-namespace-limitations.md) (2023-05-02; CloudNativeNow): Kubernetes namespaces have limits. How to work around them for multi-tenant clusters, resource isolation, and organizational scaling.
- [How to run data on Kubernetes: 6 starting principles](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-to-run-data-on-kubernetes-6-starting-principles.md) (2022-11-25; TechCrunch): 94% of orgs deploy on Kubernetes, but stateful workloads remain hard. Six principles covering operators, storage classes, StatefulSets, and Day 2 operations.
- [Shift-Left Testing Applied to Kubernetes](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/shift-left-testing-applied-to-kubernetes.md) (2022-07-12; The New Stack): Moving Kubernetes configuration validation and testing earlier in the development cycle to catch issues before they reach production.
- [Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes Are a Thing, but There Is a Twist](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/stateful-workloads-on-kubernetes-are-a-thing-but-there-is-a-twist.md) (2022-06-27; The New Stack): Running databases and stateful services on Kubernetes is possible — but requires understanding operators, persistent volumes, and Day 2 operations.
- [6 strategies for running more effective startup board meetings](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/6-strategies-for-running-more-effective-startup-board-meetings.md) (2021-06-23; TechCrunch): Many founders see board meetings as a chore. Communicate between sessions, prepare two-deck formats, debrief employees — here's how to make them actually useful.
- [With AI Now a Commodity, the Speed of Iteration Is the Next Challenge](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/with-ai-now-a-commodity-the-speed-of-iteration-is-the-next-challenge.md) (2021-06-08; The New Stack): AI models are becoming commoditized. The competitive advantage now lies in how fast teams can iterate on data, features, and deployment pipelines.
- [For companies that use ML, labeled data is the key differentiator](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/for-companies-that-use-ml-labeled-data-is-the-key-differentiator.md) (2021-05-18; TechCrunch): Why Tesla leads on ADAS — and what it teaches every company about the strategic value of training data, annotation pipelines, and the $6B labeling market.
- [Four Reasons to Take Notes by Hand](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/four-reasons-to-take-notes-by-hand.md) (2021-04-22; Forbes): Why handwriting notes improves retention, comprehension, and creative thinking compared to typing on a laptop.
- [What Is MLOps?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/what-is-mlops.md) (2021-03-19; The New Stack): A primer on MLOps — the practices, tools, and culture for managing machine learning models in production at scale.
- [Forget free college. The future of the US workforce depends on a higher education worth paying for](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/forget-free-college-the-future-of-the-us-workforce-depends-on-a-higher-education-worth-paying-for.md) (2019-11-08; CNBC): Why making college free misses the point — the real challenge is making education relevant, practical, and aligned with workforce needs.
- [The Future of Code Quality, Security, and Agility Lies in Machine Learning](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-future-of-code-quality-security-and-agility-lies-in-machine-learning.md) (2019-02-01; CIO): How machine learning is transforming code quality assurance, security scanning, and agile development workflows.
- [Improving tech education doesn't start with tech](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/improving-tech-education-doesn-t-start-with-tech.md) (2018-08-30; VentureBeat): Why fixing technical education requires addressing systemic issues in access, pedagogy, and workforce alignment before adding more technology.
- [Apprenticeships could solve tech's diversity problem](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/apprenticeships-could-solve-tech-s-diversity-problem.md) (2018-01-15; VentureBeat): How apprenticeship models borrowed from traditional trades could create more diverse, accessible pathways into the tech industry.
- [Silicon Valley sucks at training software engineers — and why it matters](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/silicon-valley-sucks-at-training-software-engineers-and-why-it-matters.md) (2017-11-01; VentureBeat): The Bay Area leads the world in software but has failed to build scalable, accessible pipelines for the next generation of engineers.
- [Filling Amazon's 50,000 jobs means finding new ways to train software engineers in the U.S.](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/filling-amazon-s-50-000-jobs-means-finding-new-ways-to-train-software-engineers-in-the-u-s.md) (2017-10-01; VentureBeat): Amazon's massive hiring push highlights the shortage of trained software engineers and the need for alternative education pathways.
- [Help wanted: Americans don't need more degrees, they need training](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/help-wanted-americans-don-t-need-more-degrees-they-need-training.md) (2017-08-01; VentureBeat): College degrees are an expensive, slow path to employment. The case for competency-based, project-driven technical education that scales.
- [Dev bootcamp shuttering shows challenges of teaching coal miners to code](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/dev-bootcamp-shuttering-shows-challenges-of-teaching-coal-miners-to-code.md) (2017-07-13; VentureBeat): The closure of Dev Bootcamp exposes the gap between coding bootcamp hype and the reality of building sustainable technical education at scale.
- [Dear President Trump: Those jobs aren't coming back — and why would we want them to?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/dear-president-trump-those-jobs-aren-t-coming-back-and-why-would-we-want-them-to.md) (2017-06-01; VentureBeat): Automation is reshaping the workforce. Instead of bringing back old jobs, the focus should be on training workers for the jobs of the future.
- [What do Ubuntu and NE-YO have in common? A Coding Summer Camp!](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/what-do-ubuntu-and-ne-yo-have-in-common-a-coding-summer-camp.md) (2017-05-30; Linux.com): How a coding summer camp brought together Ubuntu, Grammy-winning artist NE-YO, and aspiring young engineers.
- [Why education should become more like artificial intelligence](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/why-education-should-become-more-like-artificial-intelligence.md) (2016-12-05; TechCrunch): The case for applying AI-driven personalization to education — adaptive learning paths, competency-based assessment, and project-driven curricula.
- [First 5 Commands When I Connect on a Linux Server](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/first-5-commands-when-i-connect-on-a-linux-server.md) (2016-09-26; Linux.com): The essential first five commands every sysadmin runs when SSH-ing into a Linux server — from uptime to disk usage.
- [Create an Open Source AWS S3 Server](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/create-an-open-source-aws-s3-server.md) (2016-09-21; Linux.com): A hands-on guide to setting up your own S3-compatible object storage server using open source tools.
- [Next Generation of Software Engineers Need Training, Not Retraining](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/next-generation-of-software-engineers-need-training-not-retraining.md) (2016-09-01; CIO): The tech industry needs to invest in training new engineers from the ground up rather than constantly retraining existing workers.
- [How DevOps Failed 60K Users](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-devops-failed-60k-users.md) (2016-06-23; Linux.com): A postmortem on a DevOps failure that affected 60,000 users — lessons in monitoring gaps, deployment practices, and incident response.
- [DevOps Students Learn the Value of Uptime With 3 a.m. Calls](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/devops-students-learn-the-value-of-uptime-with-3-a-m-calls.md) (2016-06-16; Linux.com): Teaching DevOps through real-world on-call rotations — how students learn the value of monitoring, alerting, and system reliability the hard way.

## Podcasts

- [Eduardo Ordax — Principal GTM GenAI at AWS](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/eduardo-ordax-principal-gtm-genai-at-aws.md) (2025-12-14; Humans of Reliability): The reality of GenAI in production — why organizational culture is the biggest blocker, scaling non-deterministic LLM systems, and what separates AI winners from experimenters.
- [AI Fails Like We Do](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-fails-like-we-do.md) (2026-07-25; Engineering Futures): Sylvain Kalache went looking for the new ways AI breaks software. Every one turned out to be a habit we've had for years.
- [Anthony Alcaraz — GTM Agentic Engineering Lead at AWS](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/anthony-alcaraz-gtm-agentic-engineering-lead-at-aws.md) (2026-07-21; Humans of Reliability): Your AI agents are lost — why context engineering and knowledge graphs give agents the structure they need for retrieval, memory, planning, reasoning, and learning from business outcomes.
- [Nir Soudry — Head of R&D at 7AI](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/nir-soudry-head-of-r-d-at-7ai.md) (2026-07-15; Humans of Reliability): AI vs. AI — how autonomous attackers are scaling phishing and malware, how defenders can use agents to cut alert noise, and where accountability belongs when AI investigates and remediates incidents.
- [Eran Kampf — VP of Engineering at Twingate](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/eran-kampf-vp-of-engineering-at-twingate.md) (2026-07-06; Humans of Reliability): Why Twingate stopped shipping features to rebuild reliability — from active-active multi-region architecture and smaller blast radiuses to preserving human ownership as agentic coding accelerates delivery.
- [Alexey Grigorev — Founder of DataTalks.Club](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/alexey-grigorev-founder-of-datatalks-club.md) (2026-06-16; Humans of Reliability): How a chain of reasonable-sounding decisions led an AI coding agent to run terraform destroy against a live production database — and the guardrails that separate moving fast from losing everything.
- [Hamed Silatani — Co-Founder and CEO at Uptime Labs](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/hamed-silatani-co-founder-and-ceo-at-uptime-labs.md) (2026-05-28; Humans of Reliability): Every pilot trains for engine failure, but most engineers face their first major incident unprepared — why communication, coordination, and decision-making need deliberate simulation practice.
- [Maria Vechtomova — Co-founder at Cauchy](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/maria-vechtomova-co-founder-at-cauchy.md) (2026-05-14; Humans of Reliability): LLM observability — how monitoring principles from MLOps apply to large language model applications, the gaps that went overlooked for nine years, and best practices for observing AI systems.
- [Gandhi Kumar — Principal Incident Commander at Twilio](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/gandhi-kumar-principal-incident-commander-at-twilio.md) (2026-04-28; Humans of Reliability): The golden hour — why the first 15 minutes of an incident decide everything, from mitigation strategy to customer trust, and why human psychology matters more than tools.
- [Cliff Snyder — Senior SRE at Multimedia LLC](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/cliff-snyder-senior-sre-at-multimedia-llc.md) (2026-04-22; Humans of Reliability): From 600 to 6,000 — an 18-month transformation replacing legacy tooling with a purpose-built incident management platform, scaling operational responsibility from 600 SREs to 6,000 engineers across the org.
- [Ganesh Datta — Co-Founder & CTO at Cortex](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ganesh-datta-co-founder-cto-at-cortex.md) (2026-04-09; Humans of Reliability): AI didn't change the game, it just exposed your bottlenecks — how platform engineering and SRE teams solve identical human problems through influence rather than authority, and why AI amplifies existing bottlenecks instead of transforming operations.
- [Reliability Rebels Podcast — Guest Appearance](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/reliability-rebels-podcast-guest-appearance.md) (2026-04-08; Reliability Rebels): Reliability Rebels Guest appearance to discuss reliability engineering, AI, and modern incident response.
- [Dana Lawson — CTO at Netlify](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/dana-lawson-cto-at-netlify.md) (2026-03-31; Humans of Reliability): Fear, identity, and flaky tests — why SRE resistance to AI agents stems from identity and control concerns rather than the technology itself, and practical strategies for adopting AI-driven reliability tools starting with low-risk tasks.
- [The Software Leaders Uncensored Podcast](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-software-leaders-uncensored-podcast.md) (2026-03-30; Software Leaders Uncensored): A candid conversation on software leadership, reliability engineering, and the evolving role of AI in modern engineering teams.
- [How AI is Changing Incident Response (SRE Deep Dive)](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-ai-is-changing-incident-response-sre-deep-dive.md) (2026-03-28; The Rollback Café): From faster detection to smarter debugging — where AI delivers practical value in incident response, its limitations in production environments, and how teams can integrate AI while maintaining reliability standards.
- [Will Wilson — CEO at Antithesis](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/will-wilson-ceo-at-antithesis.md) (2026-03-19; Humans of Reliability): The incident you never had — deterministic simulation testing, why conventional testing misses bugs that cause real outages, and how simulation-based approaches improve software reliability.
- [Stephen Townshend — SRE Team Lead at isDown](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/stephen-townshend-sre-team-lead-at-isdown.md) (2026-03-04; Humans of Reliability): Burnout doesn't ask permission — the physiology of burnout from an incident responder's perspective, warning signs, recovery, and the systemic changes the industry must make.
- [Swizec Teller — Bestselling Author](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/swizec-teller-bestselling-author.md) (2026-02-17; Humans of Reliability): Code is cheap, reliability isn't — owning production in the AI era, the hidden complexity of SRE work, and why human ownership remains essential.
- [Half of Kubernetes Clusters Are About to Lose Security Updates](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/half-of-kubernetes-clusters-are-about-to-lose-security-updates.md) (2026-01-29; The Landscape): A deep dive into the Kubernetes support lifecycle and what it means for the massive number of clusters running end-of-life versions.
- [Dileshni Jayasinghe — VP of Technology at commonsku](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/dileshni-jayasinghe-vp-of-technology-at-commonsku.md) (2026-01-14; Humans of Reliability): Democratizing reliability — empowering non-engineers with operational power, incident management as a muscle, and AI-powered postmortems.
- [Tomás Hernando Koffman — Co-founder at Not Diamond](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/tom-s-hernando-koffman-co-founder-at-not-diamond.md) (2025-12-23; Humans of Reliability): 99%+ accuracy on a moving target — model deprecation, reliability with LLMs, and treating prompts as architectural components.
- [Julien Simon — VP and Chief Evangelist](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/julien-simon-vp-and-chief-evangelist.md) (2025-11-19; Humans of Reliability): A conversation about developer advocacy, AI evangelism, and building reliable systems at scale.
- [Conor Bronsdon — Head of Content at Galileo](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/conor-bronsdon-head-of-content-at-galileo.md) (2025-11-05; Humans of Reliability): Developer awareness, content strategy, and the human side of reliability engineering.
- [Kubernetes 1.34: Security, Performance, and DRA Go GA](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/kubernetes-1-34-security-performance-and-dra-go-ga.md) (2025-10-15; The Landscape): Release lead Vyom Yadav unpacks 58+ enhancements: DRA GA for GPU workloads, mutating admission policies, and major API server performance gains.
- [Rob Zuber — CTO at CircleCI](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/rob-zuber-cto-at-circleci.md) (2025-09-10; Humans of Reliability): The end of good code, AI throughput, and what reliability means at CI/CD scale.
- [Shery Brauner — SVP of Razor Group](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/shery-brauner-svp-of-razor-group.md) (2025-08-20; Humans of Reliability): Leading engineering at scale in e-commerce aggregation and the operational challenges that come with it.
- [Brian Shaw — SVP of Infrastructure and Core Banking](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/brian-shaw-svp-of-infrastructure-and-core-banking.md) (2025-07-03; Humans of Reliability): Building and operating core banking infrastructure with a focus on uptime and regulatory compliance.
- [Exploring AI's Role in Incident Management](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/exploring-ai-s-role-in-incident-management.md) (2025-06-30; Techstrong TV): Interview with Alan Shimel at PlatformCon NYC 2025 on how AI applies to incident management and reliability engineering — triage, root cause analysis, and why AI enhances rather than replaces engineers.
- [David Owczarek — Former Engineering Director](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/david-owczarek-former-engineering-director.md) (2025-06-17; Humans of Reliability): Lessons from leading engineering teams through organizational change and system migrations.
- [Ryan Lockard — VP of Platform Engineering at CVS Health](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ryan-lockard-vp-of-platform-engineering-at-cvs-health.md) (2025-05-30; Humans of Reliability): Platform engineering at healthcare scale — compliance, reliability, and developer experience.
- [Cosmo Wolfe — Head of Technology at Metronome](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/cosmo-wolfe-head-of-technology-at-metronome.md) (2025-05-26; Humans of Reliability): Building reliable billing infrastructure and the unique challenges of usage-based pricing systems.
- [Chase Roberts — COO at Northflank](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/chase-roberts-coo-at-northflank.md) (2025-05-14; Humans of Reliability): Operating a developer platform company and the reliability challenges of running infrastructure for others.
- [Justin Reock — Deputy CTO at DX](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/justin-reock-deputy-cto-at-dx.md) (2025-04-30; Humans of Reliability): Developer experience, engineering metrics, and what makes teams productive and reliable.
- [Incident Vibing: The Self-Healing System](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/incident-vibing-the-self-healing-system.md) (2025-04-23; Adventures in DevOps): Tracing the arc from ingesting logs at LinkedIn/SlideShare to LLM-driven RCA today. How fine-tuning, MCP, and incident vibing are reshaping SRE.
- [Marino Wijay — Staff Solutions Architect at Kong](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/marino-wijay-staff-solutions-architect-at-kong.md) (2025-04-17; Humans of Reliability): API gateway architecture, service mesh patterns, and reliability at the network edge.
- [Mark Quigley — Head of Platform Engineering](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/mark-quigley-head-of-platform-engineering.md) (2025-04-09; Humans of Reliability): Building internal developer platforms and the organizational dynamics of platform teams.
- [Navigating DORA: A Guide to the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/navigating-dora-a-guide-to-the-eu-s-digital-operational-resilience-act.md) (2025-04-08; Data Defenders Forum): Breaking down the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act — what it means for financial services and tech companies operating in Europe.
- [Kaspar von Grunberg — CEO at Humanitec](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/kaspar-von-grunberg-ceo-at-humanitec.md) (2025-03-24; Humans of Reliability): The platform engineering movement, internal developer platforms, and developer self-service.
- [Dan Slimmon — Incident Response Trainer](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/dan-slimmon-incident-response-trainer.md) (2025-03-13; Humans of Reliability): Training teams for incident response — chaos engineering, game days, and building organizational muscle memory.
- [Mariano Cocirio — Staff Software Engineer at Vercel](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/mariano-cocirio-staff-software-engineer-at-vercel.md) (2025-03-06; Humans of Reliability): Frontend infrastructure reliability, edge computing, and the operational side of Vercel's platform.
- [Adriana Villela — Principal DevRel at Dynatrace](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/adriana-villela-principal-devrel-at-dynatrace.md) (2025-02-27; Humans of Reliability): Observability culture, OpenTelemetry adoption, and the human side of monitoring and debugging.
- [Sean Goedecke — Staff Software Engineer at GitHub](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/sean-goedecke-staff-software-engineer-at-github.md) (2025-02-18; Humans of Reliability): Reliability at GitHub scale — incident management, deployment practices, and engineering culture.
- [The Changing Face of Election Security](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-changing-face-of-election-security.md) (2024-11-03; Data Defenders Forum): How election infrastructure security is evolving — from paper ballots to digital voting systems and the role of data compliance.
- [Harbor: the artifacts registry](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/harbor-the-artifacts-registry.md) (2024-09-17; The Landscape): Harbor maintainer Vadim Bauer walks through container image management, OCI artifact storage, replication for disaster recovery, and storing AI models.
- [APRA (American Privacy Rights Act) Explained](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/apra-american-privacy-rights-act-explained.md) (2024-05-29; Data Defenders Forum): A walkthrough of the American Privacy Rights Act — its scope, requirements, and implications for tech companies handling user data.
- [EU AI Act Secrets Revealed](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/eu-ai-act-secrets-revealed.md) (2024-05-15; Data Defenders Forum): What the EU AI Act actually requires — risk classifications, compliance timelines, and what it means for AI-driven products.
- [Intelligent Document Processing Compliance, from Stone Tablets to Digital Docs](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/intelligent-document-processing-compliance-from-stone-tablets-to-digital-docs.md) (2024-05-08; Data Defenders Forum): The evolution of document processing compliance — from physical records to AI-powered intelligent document processing systems.
- [Getting started with Platform Engineering security and compliance](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/getting-started-with-platform-engineering-security-and-compliance.md) (2024-03-18; Data Defenders Forum): How platform engineering teams can embed security and compliance into their internal developer platforms from day one.
- [Turn data security & compliance into a business advantage](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/turn-data-security-compliance-into-a-business-advantage.md) (2023-12-13; Data Defenders Forum): How forward-thinking companies are turning data security and compliance requirements into competitive advantages.
- [Navigating LLMs challenges in data security & compliance](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/navigating-llms-challenges-in-data-security-compliance.md) (2023-10-03; Data Defenders Forum): The unique data security and compliance challenges that large language models introduce — from training data to inference outputs.
- [No US SaaS for European businesses?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/no-us-saas-for-european-businesses.md) (2023-07-20; Data Defenders Forum): The growing tension between US SaaS providers and European data sovereignty requirements — what it means for cross-Atlantic business.
- [Private SaaS: a new gold standard?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/private-saas-a-new-gold-standard.md) (2023-05-24; Data Defenders Forum): Exploring the rise of private SaaS deployments as a response to data sovereignty concerns and enterprise security requirements.
- [How does data security impact open-source projects?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-does-data-security-impact-open-source-projects.md) (2023-03-15; Data Defenders Forum): The intersection of data security practices and open-source development — challenges, best practices, and community governance.
- [Postgres on Kubernetes Applied at Scale](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/postgres-on-kubernetes-applied-at-scale.md) (2023-01-01; Data on Kubernetes Community): Panel with Alvaro Hernandez and Bart Farrell on running Postgres at scale on Kubernetes — operational patterns, challenges, and lessons learned.
- [Education Technology for the Future of the Workforce](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/education-technology-for-the-future-of-the-workforce.md) (2019-01-01; Lab4U Talks): Interview on Lab4U Talks about how education technology is shaping the future workforce and the role of alternative training models.
- [Holberton School Scales Training to Meet DevOps Demand](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/holberton-school-scales-training-to-meet-devops-demand.md) (2018-05-01; The New Stack): Interview with The New Stack on how Holberton School is scaling its training programs to meet growing DevOps and software engineering demand.
- [Sylvain Kalache, Holberton School | DevNet Create 2018](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/sylvain-kalache-holberton-school-devnet-create-2018.md) (2018-04-01; SiliconANGLE theCUBE): Interview with SiliconANGLE theCUBE at Cisco DevNet Create 2018 on Holberton School's approach to developer education and training.
- [The School That Teaches Full Stack Engineering, for Free](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-school-that-teaches-full-stack-engineering-for-free.md) (2017-06-01; TFiR): Interview with TFiR on Holberton School's tuition-free model for teaching full stack engineering and its approach to project-based learning.
- [Sylvain Kalache Co-Founder of Holberton School on Business Rockstars](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/sylvain-kalache-co-founder-of-holberton-school-on-business-rockstars.md) (2017-01-01; Business Rockstars): Interview on Business Rockstars discussing the founding of Holberton School and the mission to reinvent software engineering education.

## Talks

- [From Vibes to Outages: Riding the AI Code Wave](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/from-vibes-to-outages-riding-the-ai-code-wave.md) (2025-10-08; SREcon EMEA 2025): AI-assisted coding is exploding — but acceleration doesn't mean reliability. Real examples of hard-to-trace LLM bugs, hallucinated dependencies, and operational fallout for lean SRE teams.
- [AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate.](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-productivity-and-incident-rates-devopsdays-denver-2026.md) (2026-09-22; DevOpsDays Denver): Speaking at the 10th annual DevOpsDays Rockies about how AI-assisted coding boosts developer productivity while increasing incident rates — and what reliability teams need to do about it.
- [Health Checks for Systems. What About Your Team?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/health-checks-for-systems-what-about-your-team.md) (2026-09-10; Conf42): Applying system-level observability to team health: using signals from the stack to detect unsustainable on-call rotations and overwork before they lead to burnout and resignations.
- [10x more code 20x more incidents?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/signals-conference-reliability-in-the-age-of-ai.md) (2026-09-10; Signals Conference): Speaking at Signals Conference, a curated single-track conference bringing together experts from SRE, MLOps, AIOps, and Data communities to discuss reliability challenges in the AI era.
- [More Code, More Incidents? Staying Reliable When AI Writes the Code](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/more-code-more-incidents-staying-reliable-when-ai-writes-the-code.md) (2026-07-08; Incident Fest): Speaking on the Incident Fest Main Stage about staying reliable as AI-assisted development increases the rate at which software is created.
- [AIOps Summit](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/aiops-summit.md) (2026-06-23; AIOps Summit): Meta-hosted summit in Menlo Park focused on applying AI, LLMs, and agents to software incidents and response.
- [AI Made Developers 25% More Productive. It Also Tripled Our Incident Rate.](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-made-developers-25-more-productive-it-also-tripled-our-incident-rate.md) (2026-06-09; AI DevSummit): At AI DevSummit New York: how AI-assisted coding is reshaping software delivery — the productivity gains, the surge in incident rates, and what reliability teams need to do about it.
- [The Science of On-Call Burnout: Why "How Are You Doing?" Always Gets "Fine"](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-science-of-on-call-burnout-why-how-are-you-doing-always-gets-fine.md) (2026-05-06; DevOpsDays Austin): Why traditional burnout detection fails in engineering teams. Connecting Maslach's burnout research and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory to observable on-call metrics, and demonstrating that observed data outperforms subjective self-reporting.
- [From Vibes to Outages: When AI Writes the Code You Debug](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/from-vibes-to-outages-when-ai-writes-the-code-you-debug.md) (2026-03-19; Conf42): LLM-assisted development introduces hard-to-trace bugs, AI-generated tests that mirror flawed logic, and hallucinated dependencies. Exploring operational consequences and actionable strategies from AI-powered incident tools to incident vibing.
- [Google SRE NYC Tech Talk — On-Call Health](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/google-sre-nyc-tech-talk-on-call-health.md) (2026-03-10; Google SRE NYC): The science behind responder overload and introducing On-Call Health, an open-source tool for detecting incident responder fatigue. At Google NYC Pier 57.
- [OpenClaw Demo Night w/ Rootly AI, Convex, Sentry & DigitalOcean](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/openclaw-demo-night-w-rootly-ai-convex-sentry-digitalocean.md) (2026-02-11; OpenClaw): An evening of AI demos and networking in Toronto — presenting Rootly AI alongside teams from Sentry, Red Brick Labs, Convex, and DigitalOcean.
- [AI Security Demo Night w/ Rootly AI, Okta, Panther, Tailscale & More](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-security-demo-night-w-rootly-ai-okta-panther-tailscale-more.md) (2025-07-22; AI Security Demo Night): Live demos at Okta HQ in San Francisco — presenting Rootly AI alongside cybersecurity startups tackling identity, endpoint security, and threat response.
- [Introducing Canyon — an AI for developer self-service](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/introducing-canyon-an-ai-for-developer-self-service.md) (2025-01-01; Platform Engineering): Canyon lets developers provision resources, troubleshoot issues, and interact with internal tooling via natural-language prompts.
- [From hype to impact: How AI is reshaping platform engineering](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/from-hype-to-impact-how-ai-is-reshaping-platform-engineering.md) (2024-06-01; PlatformCon): Moving past the buzzwords — where AI is actually changing developer workflows, internal developer portals, and what it means for platform teams.
- [AI-Driven Incident Resolution — Hype or Reality](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-driven-incident-resolution-hype-or-reality.md) (2024-05-01; DevOpsDays Austin): A grounded look at what LLMs can and can't do in an incident response workflow today, drawn from real production experiments at Rootly AI Labs.
- [Life-Long Learning in the 4th Industrial Revolution](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/life-long-learning-in-the-4th-industrial-revolution.md) (2020-12-22; UNESCO): UNESCO International Youth Conference keynote on why education must shift from memorization to problem-solving, critical thinking, and collaboration.
- [An Education for the 4th Industrial Revolution](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/an-education-for-the-4th-industrial-revolution-flii-2020.md) (2020-02-19; FLII — New Ventures): Talk at the Latin American Impact Investing Forum (FLII X) in Mérida, Mexico on how project-based, peer-driven education models prepare the next generation of engineers, representing Holberton School.
- [New Societies Require a New Skills-Oriented Pedagogy](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/new-societies-require-a-new-skills-oriented-pedagogy.md) (2019-12-01; Inter-American Development Bank): Inter-American Development Bank talk on rethinking pedagogy to focus on skills over credentials in the modern economy.
- [An Education for the 4th Industrial Revolution](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/an-education-for-the-4th-industrial-revolution.md) (2019-06-01; StartSe): How project-based, peer-driven education models are preparing the next generation of engineers for a rapidly changing world.
- [Transforming Education for the Next Generation of Software Engineers](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/transforming-education-for-the-next-generation-of-software-engineers.md) (2019-05-01; DockerCon): DockerCon talk on how alternative education models are reshaping the pipeline of software engineering talent.
- [Show Me the Money: Is Lowering Costs in Higher Education an Economic Imperative?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/show-me-the-money-is-lowering-costs-in-higher-education-an-economic-imperative.md) (2019-04-01; ASU GSV Summit): ASU GSV Summit panel on the economics of higher education and whether cost reduction is essential for the future of workforce development.
- [A Different Model for Developing Software Engineers](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/a-different-model-for-developing-software-engineers.md) (2018-06-01; Nexus): Nexus conference talk on peer-learning, project-based curricula, and why the traditional CS degree model needs disruption.
- [Higher Education Innovation Summit](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/higher-education-innovation-summit.md) (2017-12-17; C-SPAN): Presenting at the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Innovation Summit on rethinking how we prepare students for the tech workforce.
- [Pathways to Youth Employment — Apprenticeships and Work-based Training](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/pathways-to-youth-employment-apprenticeships-and-work-based-training.md) (2017-04-16; GAN Global): Speaker at the Global Apprenticeships Network (GAN) conference in Johannesburg on apprenticeship models and work-based training as a path to youth employment, representing Holberton School.

## Panels

- [Tea, Pipelines, and Retries: A Practical Guide to MLOps](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/tea-pipelines-and-retries-a-practical-guide-to-mlops.md) (2025-10-07; SREcon EMEA 2025): Discussion at SREcon EMEA 2025 on how AI is transforming the software development lifecycle — CI/CD pipelines, deployments, scaling, monitoring, incident management, reliability tooling, and emerging disciplines like LLMOps.
- [AI Meets Reliability](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ai-meets-reliability.md) (2025-09-23; Rootly AI Labs): Panel exploring AI-driven automation and observability with leaders from NVIDIA, OpenAI, Baseten, Replit, and Weights & Biases on scaling operations and reducing MTTR.
- [MCPs and the Next Wave of Reliability w/ Rootly AI, WorkOS, Block, Microsoft & Groq](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/mcps-and-the-next-wave-of-reliability-w-rootly-ai-workos-block-microsoft-groq.md) (2025-08-28; Rootly AI Labs): Panel at the AWS GenAI Loft in San Francisco on MCPs, incident automation, observability, and generative AI tooling for reliability.
- [Frontiers of AI: Building with Rootly AI, Zscaler, CircleCI, Fireworks AI & Google DeepMind](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/frontiers-of-ai-building-with-rootly-ai-zscaler-circleci-fireworks-ai-google-deepmind.md) (2025-07-25; Rootly AI Labs): Panel at Google HQ with 300+ attendees exploring real-world Gemini models, reinforcement learning, next-gen agent systems, and AI reliability.
- [Rootly Roundtable: From Weak Signals to Confident Fixes](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/rootly-roundtable-from-weak-signals-to-confident-fixes.md) (2025-06-18; Rootly): Invite-only roundtable on filtering alert noise, enriching alerts with automated ownership context, and streamlining bug validation workflows.
- [How AI is Fueling the Developer Renaissance](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-ai-is-fueling-the-developer-renaissance.md) (2025-06-05; Rootly AI Labs): Panel at the AWS GenAI Loft with leaders from a16z, AWS, Dagger, Braintrust, Baseten, and Arize AI on how AI is transforming developer workflows.
- [Rootly Roundtable: Centralized vs. Distributed Incident Teams](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/rootly-roundtable-centralized-vs-distributed-incident-teams.md) (2025-05-07; Rootly): Invite-only roundtable comparing centralized specialist responders with distributed on-call models — which strategy works for your org.
- [The Future of AI-Driven Reliability](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-future-of-ai-driven-reliability.md) (2025-04-24; Rootly AI Labs): Panel with leaders from a16z, Y Combinator, and Google Cloud on how MCP servers and agent-to-agent communication are revolutionizing developer tools. Demos from Anthropic, Sentry, Postman, and Browserbase.
- [Rootly Roundtable: The State of AI in Incident Management](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/rootly-roundtable-the-state-of-ai-in-incident-management.md) (2025-03-06; Rootly): Invite-only roundtable examining AI's role in incident response — separating practical applications from hype with industry leaders.
- [The Future of Data on Kubernetes with Adobe and CNCF](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-future-of-data-on-kubernetes-with-adobe-and-cncf.md) (2023-06-01; Data on Kubernetes Community): Panel with Joseph Sandoval and Xing Yang on the future of data on Kubernetes — storage, stateful workloads, and the evolving CNCF landscape.
- [Why Are Operators Paramount to Running Stateful Workloads on Kubernetes?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/why-are-operators-paramount-to-running-stateful-workloads-on-kubernetes.md) (2023-03-01; Data on Kubernetes Community): DoKC panel on why Kubernetes operators are essential for managing stateful workloads — database operations, storage patterns, and automation.
- [Docker in Education Panel](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/docker-in-education-panel.md) (2019-05-01; DockerCon): Panel discussion at DockerCon on how Docker and containerization are transforming education and developer training programs.

## Open-source projects

- [Doom Agent Arena](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/doom-agent-arena.md) (2026-05-11; GitHub): An MCP-native arena that pits AI models against each other in real-time Doom matches to benchmark spatial planning, adaptation, speed, accuracy, and cost.
- [Rootly-MCP-server](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/rootly-mcp-server.md) (2025-03-01; GitHub): An MCP server for Rootly — enabling AI agents to interact with incident management workflows via the Model Context Protocol.
- [SRE-skills-bench](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/sre-skills-bench.md) (2025-02-01; GitHub): A benchmark suite for evaluating AI agents on real-world SRE tasks — incident diagnosis, runbook execution, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
- [MCP-Sylvain-Kalache](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/mcp-sylvain-kalache.md) (2025-01-15; GitHub): A personal MCP server that exposes my portfolio data — articles, podcasts, talks, panels, GitHub projects, news, bio, timeline, and live weather — as queryable tools for AI agents.
- [On-Call-Health](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/on-call-health.md) (2024-06-01; GitHub): Detects early warning signs of on-call engineer burnout by pulling data from Rootly, PagerDuty, Linear, GitHub, and Slack.
- [water-height-sensor](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/water-height-sensor.md) (2023-05-15; GitHub): Arduino-based sensor to measure Fort Lauderdale canal water height.
- [DevOps Foundations Professional Certificate](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/devops-foundations-professional-certificate.md) (2023-01-01; edX): edX Professional Certificate program covering DevOps fundamentals — CI/CD, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and culture.
- [Automated Management of a Distributed Computing System](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/automated-management-of-a-distributed-computing-system.md) (2017-06-06; US Patent Office): US Patent (US9674031B2) — A machine learning-powered self-healing infrastructure that monitors distributed systems, detects anomalies, and automatically applies remedies based on historical incident data. Co-designed at LinkedIn.

## In the news

- [Speed vs. Risk: Experts Weigh In on Using AI Coding Assistants](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/speed-vs-risk-experts-weigh-in-on-using-ai-coding-assistants.md) (2026-06-09; Dice): Engineering leaders discuss when AI coding assistants accelerate development and when they introduce security, quality, and architectural risk.
- [African Leadership Group Acquires Coding School Holberton](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/african-leadership-group-acquires-coding-school-holberton.md) (2022-07-13; TechCrunch): African Leadership Group acquires Holberton School to expand access to software engineering education across Africa.
- [Holberton Raises $20M as It Pivots to Become an EdTech SaaS Company](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/holberton-raises-20m-as-it-pivots-to-become-an-edtech-saas-company.md) (2021-03-25; TechCrunch): Holberton School raises $20 million and pivots from running schools directly to licensing its curriculum as a SaaS platform.
- [Legendary Songwriter Savan Kotecha Joins Holberton School Board to Increase Tech Diversity](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/legendary-songwriter-savan-kotecha-joins-holberton-school-board-to-increase-tech-diversity.md) (2020-07-13; Forbes): Savan Kotecha, songwriter behind hits for Ariana Grande and The Weeknd, joins Holberton School's board of trustees.
- [Holberton School, l'école qui forme les ingénieurs informatiques de demain](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/holberton-school-l-cole-qui-forme-les-ing-nieurs-informatiques-de-demain.md) (2020-01-01; Forbes France): Comment Holberton School forme la prochaine génération d'ingénieurs informatiques avec une pédagogie innovante.
- [Priyanka Chopra Jonas Joins the Holberton School as an Investor](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/priyanka-chopra-jonas-joins-the-holberton-school-as-an-investor.md) (2019-07-02; Forbes): Actress and producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas invests in Holberton School, backing its mission to democratize tech education.
- [Holberton Opens Its Software Engineering School in Medellín](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/holberton-opens-its-software-engineering-school-in-medell-n.md) (2019-06-10; TechCrunch): Holberton School expands to Medellín, Colombia, bringing its peer-learning software engineering program to Latin America.
- [Six Ways to Diversify Your Workforce](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/six-ways-to-diversify-your-workforce.md) (2019-03-06; Forbes): Actionable strategies for building a more diverse workforce — from pipeline programs to inclusive hiring practices.
- [5 Reasons DevOps Initiatives Fail](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/5-reasons-devops-initiatives-fail.md) (2018-12-01; CIO): Common pitfalls that cause DevOps transformations to stall — from cultural resistance to tooling fragmentation.
- [NE-YO Wants to Make Silicon Valley More Diverse](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ne-yo-wants-to-make-silicon-valley-more-diverse.md) (2018-09-29; TechCrunch): Grammy-winning artist NE-YO teams up with Holberton School to tackle Silicon Valley's diversity gap through education.
- [The New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Jobs](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/the-new-generation-of-artificial-intelligence-jobs.md) (2018-09-21; The New York Times): How AI is creating entirely new job categories and what skills workers need to fill them.
- [How the Best Managers Find Hidden Tech Talent](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-the-best-managers-find-hidden-tech-talent.md) (2018-07-01; CIO): Strategies for engineering managers to discover and recruit talented developers from non-traditional backgrounds.
- [Meet Six Members of Forbes San Francisco Business Council](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/meet-six-members-of-forbes-san-francisco-business-council.md) (2018-05-31; Forbes): Profiles of six members of the Forbes San Francisco Business Council and their insights on building companies in the Bay Area.
- [Holberton School Raises $8.2 Million](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/holberton-school-raises-8-2-million.md) (2018-04-09; Forbes): Holberton School closes an $8.2 million funding round to expand its peer-learning software engineering program.
- [Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/education-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution.md) (2018-01-01; World Economic Forum): A World Economic Forum podcast exploring how education systems must adapt to prepare workers for the fourth industrial revolution.
- [8 Predictions for the Future of Work](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/8-predictions-for-the-future-of-work.md) (2017-12-01; World Economic Forum): The World Economic Forum outlines eight predictions for how work, education, and skills will evolve in the coming decades.
- [Holberton Gets Backing From More Industry Executives as It Looks to Scale](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/holberton-gets-backing-from-more-industry-executives-as-it-looks-to-scale.md) (2017-10-25; TechCrunch): Holberton School secures new investment from tech industry leaders as it expands its software engineering education model.
- [Holberton, a Two-Year Tech School, Emphasizes Diversity](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/holberton-a-two-year-tech-school-emphasizes-diversity.md) (2017-06-07; The New York Times): How Holberton School's two-year software engineering program is building a more diverse pipeline of tech talent.
- [NE-YO Invests in Holberton School to Diversify Tech](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/ne-yo-invests-in-holberton-school-to-diversify-tech.md) (2017-05-30; Fortune): Grammy-winning artist NE-YO backs Holberton School, investing in a new model of tech education focused on diversity and access.
- [How the Rooney Rule Is Changing Tech Hiring](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/how-the-rooney-rule-is-changing-tech-hiring.md) (2017-04-18; Fortune): Applying the NFL's Rooney Rule to tech hiring — requiring diverse candidate slates to address the industry's representation gap.
- [Les métiers de la French Touch, atouts pour passer les frontières](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/les-m-tiers-de-la-french-touch-atouts-pour-passer-les-fronti-res.md) (2017-03-21; Le Monde): Comment les compétences estampillées « qualité française » aident les professionnels tech à s'exporter à l'international.
- [New-Age School Raises $2.3 Million to Train Techies](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/new-age-school-raises-2-3-million-to-train-techies.md) (2017-02-06; Fortune): Holberton School raises $2.3 million to scale its alternative approach to training software engineers in San Francisco.
- [Is It Time to Kill the Whiteboard Interview?](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/is-it-time-to-kill-the-whiteboard-interview.md) (2016-11-21; Dice): Why whiteboard interviews fail to assess real engineering skills and what alternative approaches companies should consider.
- [This School Wants to Change How We Train the Next Generation of Tech Workers](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/this-school-wants-to-change-how-we-train-the-next-generation-of-tech-workers.md) (2016-11-12; CNN Money): A look at how Holberton School is rethinking tech education with project-based learning and no traditional lectures.
- [International Botathon Finalists Selected to Present at MobileBeat 2016](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/international-botathon-finalists-selected-to-present-at-mobilebeat-2016.md) (2016-07-11; VentureBeat): Finalists from the international botathon competition are selected to showcase their work at VentureBeat's MobileBeat 2016 conference.
- [Schools Are Recording Students' Results on the Blockchain](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/schools-are-recording-students-results-on-the-blockchain.md) (2016-05-09; CNBC): How blockchain technology is being used to create tamper-proof, verifiable academic records for students.
- [Des Frenchies lancent une école dans la Silicon Valley](https://www.sylvainkalache.com/content/des-frenchies-lancent-une-cole-dans-la-silicon-valley.md) (2016-01-23; Le Monde): Des entrepreneurs français fondent une école d'ingénieurs d'un nouveau genre au cœur de la Silicon Valley.

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