In this episode of the Data & AI Podcast, hosts Steve Bryen, CTO at Mesh-AI, and Eric Papaluca, Principal Consultant at Mesh-AI, are joined by Adrian Hornsby, CEO and founder of Resilium Labs, focused at helping customers improve system resilience. Together, they explore what it really takes to design systems and organisations that don’t just survive disruption - but thrive in the face of it.From the hard lesson of accidentally deleting a production database to leading Chaos Engineering at Amazon, Adrian shares decades of experience turning incidents into opportunities for learning. He explains why resilience isn’t something you buy — it’s something you build - and why the cultural foundations of resilience are just as critical as the technical ones.This episode dives deep into:

• Chaos vs. resilience engineering — and why the difference matters
• How game days, postmortems, and psychological safety enable continuous learning
• The prevention paradox: why good resilience often looks like “nothing happening”
• How AI introduces both new opportunities and new risks in incident response
• Why transferring knowledge is key to making resilience everyone’s responsibility

Whether you’re scaling distributed systems, leading incident response, or building a culture of reliability, this is a must-listen for anyone serious about resilience in the age of AI.

‍“Good resilience is invisible — its output is non-events.” – Adrian Hornsby

About Our Guests

Adrian Hornsby is a resilience engineering leader and former AWS Principal Engineer with decades of experience helping organisations withstand disruption, adapt to change, and thrive in uncertainty.

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His mission is to make resilience a natural part of how teams operate - blending the technical capabilities (architecture reviews, chaos engineering, operational readiness, and incident learning) with the cultural foundations (psychological safety, knowledge sharing, and proactive preparation) that enable organisations to succeed under pressure.

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Adrian has worked with companies of all sizes - from early-stage startups to global enterprises - guiding them to design resilient systems, transform incidents into learning opportunities, and scale resilience practices across teams. His ultimate goal? To transfer knowledge so that organisations build their own long-term resilience capabilities.

About The Podcast

The Data & AI Podcast explores the developments, insights and trends in data science and AI/ML. Our hosts will delve into the latest news and discuss the challenges on how enterprises are reimagining how they use data and AI to benefit their customers.

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Interested in speaking on the show? Get in touch with us at podcasts@mesh-ai.com