Data Engineering

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? ...

Presenters Shruthi Rajashekar Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Unifying the Hybrid Cloud: How VM Service is Revolutionizing VM and Container Management 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Shruthi Rajashekar, an engineering manager at Broadcom, is here to shed some light on a game-changer for hybrid cloud environments. For the past decade at VMware Broadcom, Shruthi has been instrumental in developing foundational technologies like vMotion and VM service, bridging the gap between traditional virtualization and modern cloud-native infrastructure. Today, she’s diving deep into how a unified control plane for virtual machines (VMs) and container-based workloads can be achieved using VM service, a VCF offering, and why this approach is absolutely critical for platforms demanding high availability and operational excellence. ...

Presenters Raman Tehlan Shubham Rai Source Conf42 SRE 2026 CruiseKube: Revolutionizing Kubernetes Resource Optimization 🚀 Are your Kubernetes clusters costing you more than they should, even when you try to be frugal with resource requests? You’re not alone! Many organizations struggle with the fear of downtime caused by under-provisioning, leading to a cycle of over-provisioning that inflates costs and leaves nodes underutilized. But what if there was a smarter way? Enter CruiseKube, an innovative open-source tool designed to tackle pod-level resource optimization head-on. ...

Presenters Abhimanyu Narwal Source Conf42 SRE 2026 The Silent Killers: Unmasking Failures Beyond Your Dashboards 🕵️‍♀️ We’ve all been there. Alarms blaring, graphs spiking, the adrenaline rush of an incident. As engineers, we excel at fighting outages, diving into the chaos, and emerging victorious. But what if the most expensive reliability failures aren’t the ones that make noise? What if they’re the quiet, insidious ones that slow us down, all while our dashboards gleam with a reassuring green? ...

Presenters Daniel Raskin David McNerney Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🕵️‍♂️ When the Stack Lies: Unmasking Root Cause in Distributed Systems In the high-stakes world of modern enterprise technology, the “stack” often tells half-truths. As we migrate from classic three-tiered architectures to hyper-distributed environments, the complexity of our systems is outstripping our ability to monitor them. Daniel Raskin (CMO at Vertana) and David McNerney (Director of Product Management at Vertana) recently sat down to dissect why traditional observability is failing and how a system-aware approach can save the day. ...