Artificial Intelligence

Presenters Mariem Sboui Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Decoding Kubernetes & HTTP/2: Why Default Load Balancing Just Doesn’t Cut It 🤯 Hello, tech enthusiasts! Today, we’re diving deep into a real-world Kubernetes incident that Mariem Sboui, a brilliant Site Reliability Engineer. Mariem spends her days running and scaling Kubernetes platforms in production, making her insights invaluable. She walked us through a fascinating challenge: why Kubernetes’ default load balancing falls short for HTTP/2 traffic. Get ready to uncover the mysteries behind unexpected traffic patterns and learn how to build more resilient systems! ...

Presenters Dipta Rakshit Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Building AI-Driven Platforms That Save Lives (and Sales!) 🚀💖🛍️ Hello, tech enthusiasts! Dipta Rakshit from Walmart Global Tech (and Northeastern Hill University) takes us on an incredible journey today, exploring the demanding world of building reliable AI-driven mobile platforms for healthcare and commerce. Imagine creating one powerful platform that navigates the life-and-death stakes of healthcare while simultaneously powering the dynamic world of online shopping. That’s precisely the fascinating challenge Dipta and his team tackle! ...

Presenters Abhishek Suman Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Outrunning the Adversary: Mastering Compute Sharded Stream Processing at Petabyte Scale 🚀 In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, time is the only currency that truly matters. When a bad actor breaches a system, they don’t wait for your scheduled batch jobs to finish. They move with incredible speed, often completing lateral movement, credential harvesting, and establishing persistence within mere minutes. I am Abhishek Suman, a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft. My daily mission involves building the fault-tolerant, large-scale distributed systems that power real-time data pipelines and cybersecurity infrastructure. Today, I am diving deep into how we handle petabyte-scale telemetry using compute sharded stream processing to close the detection gap once and for all. 🛡️ ...

Presenters Khushboo Nigam Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Unraveling the Chaos: Why Correlating Telemetry is the New Superpower for Cloud-Native Observability ✨ Hey tech enthusiasts! Khushboo Nigam, a Cloud Architect specializing in observability for cloud-native systems, recently shed light on a pervasive challenge facing SRE teams today. It’s not about collecting more data; it’s about making sense of the massive amounts of telemetry modern distributed systems generate. The core message is clear: Correlation over Collection. ...

Presenters Amogha Tenneti Source Conf42 SRE 2026 From Lab Bench to High-Throughput: How SRE Principles Revolutionized Biologics Automation 🚀🔬 Good morning, everyone! Amogha Tenneti here, and I’m thrilled to share a fascinating journey with you. We often associate Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with the world of software, protecting our digital systems from outages and ensuring seamless user experiences. But what if I told you that the very same SRE principles can unlock incredible reliability, compliance, and scalability in a highly regulated, hands-on environment like a biological process development lab? ...