Product 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 Sonali Galhotra Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🌐 Beyond the Dashboard: Why Reliability is an Organizational System Problem In the world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we often obsess over uptime, latency, error budgets, and system telemetry. While these metrics are vital, they don’t tell the whole story. According to Sonali Galhotra, a leader at the intersection of technical program leadership and platform engineering, the most critical reliability signals don’t always appear on a monitoring dashboard. Instead, they emerge from how an organization structures itself and where it chooses to invest. ...

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? ...