Rob Colantuoni
Rob Colantuoni
AI Infrastructure Architect
Fluidstack
Tags
Leadership
When You Can't Tell Who's Good, the Good Ones Leave
Agents That Don't Wait to Be Asked
SRE for Startups, Part 5: When stuff breaks and what you learn from it
SRE for Startups, Part 1: Why 100% Uptime Is the Wrong Target
Ten Years In. What Actually Stuck.
Some Teams Fall Apart. Others Get Stronger.
What 18 Months of AI Chaos Taught Me
Your Boss Wants an AI Strategy. Now What?
The skill nobody teaches you
What I've learned coding with Copilot
Your Org Probably Doesn't Have a Technical Strategy
Meetings Were Broken Before the Pandemic
Stop Promoting Your Best Engineers Out of Engineering
What Does a Staff Engineer Actually Do
Culture Is the Whole Game
You Don't Need a Title to Lead
Engineering Culture
When You Can't Tell Who's Good, the Good Ones Leave
SRE for Startups, Part 5: When stuff breaks and what you learn from it
Ten Years In. What Actually Stuck.
Some Teams Fall Apart. Others Get Stronger.
Meetings Were Broken Before the Pandemic
Stop Promoting Your Best Engineers Out of Engineering
Culture Is the Whole Game
You Don't Need a Title to Lead
Infrastructure
Agents That Don't Wait to Be Asked
SRE for Startups, Part 6: Shipping more often so you can worry less
SRE for Startups, Part 4: What you actually need to see (and when to panic)
SRE for Startups, Part 3: The Work That Feels Productive But Isn't
SRE for Startups, Part 2: SLIs, SLOs, and Actually Using Your Error Budget
SRE for Startups, Part 1: Why 100% Uptime Is the Wrong Target
From Copilots to Something Weirder
GPUs Are the New Scarcity
Your Dashboards Aren't Going to Save You
If Your Infrastructure Isn't Code, You're Building on Sand
ML Is About to Leave the Lab
Containers Are Going to Change Everything
DevOps
SRE for Startups, Part 6: Shipping more often so you can worry less
SRE for Startups, Part 4: What you actually need to see (and when to panic)
SRE for Startups, Part 3: The Work That Feels Productive But Isn't
Your Dashboards Aren't Going to Save You
If Your Infrastructure Isn't Code, You're Building on Sand
Containers Are Going to Change Everything
Machine Learning
GPT-3 and the Interface Revolution Nobody Is Talking About
ML Is About to Leave the Lab
AI
Agents That Don't Wait to Be Asked
From Copilots to Something Weirder
What 18 Months of AI Chaos Taught Me
GPUs Are the New Scarcity
Your Boss Wants an AI Strategy. Now What?
What I've learned coding with Copilot
GPT-3 and the Interface Revolution Nobody Is Talking About
ML Is About to Leave the Lab
Career
When You Can't Tell Who's Good, the Good Ones Leave
Ten Years In. What Actually Stuck.
The skill nobody teaches you
Stop Promoting Your Best Engineers Out of Engineering
What Does a Staff Engineer Actually Do
Architecture
Your Org Probably Doesn't Have a Technical Strategy
Microservices: Let's Be Honest About the Trade-offs
Distributed Computing
Microservices: Let's Be Honest About the Trade-offs
Strategy
Agents That Don't Wait to Be Asked
From Copilots to Something Weirder
What 18 Months of AI Chaos Taught Me
Your Boss Wants an AI Strategy. Now What?
Your Org Probably Doesn't Have a Technical Strategy
SRE
SRE for Startups, Part 6: Shipping more often so you can worry less
SRE for Startups, Part 5: When stuff breaks and what you learn from it
SRE for Startups, Part 4: What you actually need to see (and when to panic)
SRE for Startups, Part 3: The Work That Feels Productive But Isn't
SRE for Startups, Part 2: SLIs, SLOs, and Actually Using Your Error Budget
SRE for Startups, Part 1: Why 100% Uptime Is the Wrong Target
16 Feb 2026 »
When You Can't Tell Who's Good, the Good Ones Leave
09 Feb 2026 »
Agents That Don't Wait to Be Asked
07 Feb 2026 »
SRE for Startups, Part 6: Shipping more often so you can worry less
03 Feb 2026 »
SRE for Startups, Part 5: When stuff breaks and what you learn from it
27 Jan 2026 »
SRE for Startups, Part 4: What you actually need to see (and when to panic)
20 Jan 2026 »
SRE for Startups, Part 3: The Work That Feels Productive But Isn't
13 Jan 2026 »
SRE for Startups, Part 2: SLIs, SLOs, and Actually Using Your Error Budget
06 Jan 2026 »
SRE for Startups, Part 1: Why 100% Uptime Is the Wrong Target
15 Dec 2025 »
Ten Years In. What Actually Stuck.
07 Apr 2025 »
From Copilots to Something Weirder
14 Oct 2024 »
Some Teams Fall Apart. Others Get Stronger.
04 Mar 2024 »
What 18 Months of AI Chaos Taught Me
11 Sep 2023 »
GPUs Are the New Scarcity
20 Feb 2023 »
Your Boss Wants an AI Strategy. Now What?
17 Oct 2022 »
The skill nobody teaches you
11 Apr 2022 »
What I've learned coding with Copilot
09 Aug 2021 »
Your Dashboards Aren't Going to Save You
22 Mar 2021 »
Your Org Probably Doesn't Have a Technical Strategy
26 Oct 2020 »
GPT-3 and the Interface Revolution Nobody Is Talking About
13 Apr 2020 »
Meetings Were Broken Before the Pandemic
09 Sep 2019 »
Stop Promoting Your Best Engineers Out of Engineering
18 Mar 2019 »
If Your Infrastructure Isn't Code, You're Building on Sand
05 Nov 2018 »
Microservices: Let's Be Honest About the Trade-offs
29 Jan 2018 »
What Does a Staff Engineer Actually Do
15 Aug 2017 »
ML Is About to Leave the Lab
08 Feb 2017 »
Culture Is the Whole Game
22 Sep 2016 »
Containers Are Going to Change Everything
15 Mar 2016 »
You Don't Need a Title to Lead