Boris Tane - Polylane

<p>This week we're joined by Boris Tane, founder of Polylane and previously founder of Baselime, the observability startup Cloudflare acquired in 2024, where he went on to lead Workers observability. Polylane builds a live topology map across your cloud, observability tools, and repos so an agent can detect, investigate, and fix production issues before anyone gets paged. We talk about why bolted-on AI tools fail for on-call, how Polylane's memory systems work, using trajectory analysis to vet pull requests before they merge, and what happens to the on-call rotation as agents write more of our code.</p><ul><li><a href="https://polylane.com">https://polylane.com</a></li><li><a href="https://boristane.com">https://boristane.com</a></li><li><a href="https://x.com/boristane">https://x.com/boristane</a></li><li><a href="https://boristane.com/blog/on-call-is-now-theatre/">https://boristane.com/blog/on-call-is-now-theatre/</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2024/cloudflare-enters-observability-market-with-acquisition-baselime/">https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2024/cloudflare-enters-observability-market-with-acquisition-baselime/</a></li><li><a href="https://www.openstatus.dev">https://www.openstatus.dev</a></li></ul><p>00:00:00 Introduction<br>00:01:07 Boris's Path from Aerospace<br>00:06:44 Scale and Agents at Cloudflare<br>00:13:09 Why Bolt-On Tools Fail<br>00:17:15 Ad<br>00:18:19 Onboarding and Topology Discovery<br>00:21:20 Memory Systems for Agents<br>00:27:19 Trajectory Analysis for Pull Requests<br>00:33:06 Auto-Merging and Review Trust<br>00:38:51 Preview Environments and Feature Flags<br>00:44:58 Status Pages and External Outages<br>00:47:35 The Future of On-Call Work<br>00:51:13 Uneven Future and Wrap-Up</p><p>Full show notes and transcript: <a href="https://devtools.fm/episode/179">https://devtools.fm/episode/179</a></p>