Guests

Tyler Akidau

Redpanda

1 episode on Chain of Thought

Tyler Akidau is the CTO of Redpanda and the author of the O’Reilly Streaming Systems book, after twelve years on streaming systems at Google and five at Snowflake. On Chain of Thought he argued that enterprises are shipping AI agents without the governance layer they need, and laid out four pillars of "agent HR": identity, authorization, observability, and accountability.

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• We Built Agents, Nobody Built HR | Tyler Akidau, Redpanda May 27, 2026 · Transcript