AI-Governed Lakehouse Ingestion with Flink on Kubernetes | Jyothish Sreedharan | Conf42 SRE 2026

Presenters Jyothish Sreedharan Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Building Resilient Data Pipelines: AI Governance Meets Stream Processing 🚀 In today’s data-driven world, organizations thrive on massive data pipelines that pull information from a multitude of sources – databases, APIs, event streams, and logs. However, these pipelines often falter due to evolving data structures (schema drift), subtle meaning changes (semantic inconsistencies), and the sheer complexity of operations. Enter Jyothish Sreedharan, who presents a groundbreaking architecture that harmonizes stream processing, semantic intelligence, and cloud-native infrastructure to create injection systems that are not just self-adapting and resilient, but truly production-ready. ...

March 19, 2026 · 7 min

Autonomy with Guardrails: Operating Agentic Automation | Ajay Athitya Ramanathan | Conf42 SRE 2026

Presenters Ajay Athitya Ramanathan Source Conf42 SRE 2026 From Chatbots to Agents: Engineering Safe Autonomy in Production 🚀 In the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence, we are witnessing a massive shift. AI is no longer just a tool that assists humans; it is becoming a system that takes action. Ajay Athitya Ramanathan, a Data and AI Engineer at Fort Square, specializes in this very frontier: integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise systems and designing workflows where AI interacts with real production data. ...

March 19, 2026 · 5 min

Operating Predictive Analytics at Scale | Prajakta Talathi | Conf42 SRE 2026

Presenters Prajakta Talathi Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🚀 Beyond Accuracy: Operating Predictive Analytics with SRE Precision In the high-stakes world of education finance, a model is only as good as the decisions it enables. Imagine shipping a model with stellar test results, only to watch it stumble in the real world when student funding and tuition timelines are on the line. I am Prajakta Talathi, and I work at the intersection of data strategy, analytics, and business execution. Today, we explore how to move beyond simply shipping models to operating them as reliable services using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. ...

March 19, 2026 · 4 min

Why K8s Default Load Balancing Doesn’t Work for HTTP/2 Traffic | Mariem Sboui | Conf42 SRE 2026

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! ...

March 19, 2026 · 5 min

Compute-Sharded Stream Processing for Cybersecurity Analytics | Abhishek Suman | Conf42 SRE 2026

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. 🛡️ ...

March 19, 2026 · 4 min