Alex Ewerlöf
Senior Staff Engineer at Volvo Cars and author focused on reliability engineering, with a background spanning product engineering, startups, and SRE practice and tooling.
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Apr 5, 2024 • 54min
#98 - Service Levels 101 feat. Alex Ewerlöf - Sr Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars & SRE Thought Leader
Alex Ewerlöf, Sr. Staff Engineer @ Volvo Cars & SRE Thought Leader, discusses SRE vs. DevOps vs. Platform Engineering, challenges of standardization, software in automotive industry, and Volvo's shift to in-house software development. Learn about setting SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, and find out the unique software challenges in the automotive industry.
Dec 2, 2025 • 26min
Reliability Engineering Mindset • Alex Ewerlöf & Charity Majors
In this engaging discussion, Alex Ewerlöf, a Senior Staff Engineer at Volvo Cars and reliability engineering author, shares his journey from product engineering to the challenges of implementing Google's SRE practices. He highlights the gap between theoretical frameworks and real-world limitations, discussing the importance of aligning SLIs with business impact and the critical role of SLOs in setting expectations. Alex warns against cookie-cutter SLIs and emphasizes the need for tailored approaches based on service criticality, making reliability a strategic conversation in engineering.
