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Presenters Andrew Espira Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🚀 Mastering the Chaos: Bringing SRE Principles to AI Agent Orchestration The AI revolution is moving fast, and for many engineering teams, the infrastructure is quickly becoming a wild west. Andrew Espira, a founding engineer at Castro, recently shared how his team tackled the daunting complexity of managing hundreds of AI agents across dozens of environments. When you have agents spinning up sub-agents, executing thousands of parallel tasks, and calling various services, traditional monitoring simply falls short. Enter Agency—a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to bring order, visibility, and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) rigor to your agentic workflows. ...

Presenters Murtuza J Merchant Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Stablecoins: The Cloud-Native Payment Infrastructure Revolution 🚀 Are you tired of the slow, expensive, and clunky traditional payment systems? Imagine sending money from London to Jakarta not in two to five business days with fees between $20 and $40, but in under 5 seconds for less than a tenth of a cent. This isn’t a futuristic dream; it’s the reality stablecoins offer today, and they’re rapidly becoming the first cloud-native payment infrastructure. ...

Presenters Matt Pocock Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Why Software Fundamentals are Your Superpower in the Age of AI Do you feel like your hard-earned engineering skills are losing their value in a world dominated by LLMs? Matt Pocock has a comforting, yet provocative message for you: software fundamentals matter now more than they ever have. While many believe we are entering a specs-to-code era where we can simply ignore the implementation, the reality is much messier. If you treat code as a disposable byproduct, you fall into the trap of vibe coding. You run the compiler, get garbage, run it again, and get even worse garbage. ...

Presenters Kitaborovskis Sizzy Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Hey, tech enthusiasts and productivity hackers! Ever feel like you’re wrestling with your to-do list more than actually doing things? You’re definitely not alone. Our speaker, K, recently celebrated his 34th birthday by sharing his incredible, decades-long journey through the chaotic, frustrating, and ultimately inspiring world of productivity and personal AI agents. Get ready for a wild ride! The Relentless Pursuit of Productivity: A Personal Odyssey 🚀 K’s quest began at the tender age of 10, when he created his very first to-do list in a notebook. Since then, he has been in a constant struggle to conquer productivity, always feeling dissatisfied with existing solutions. “Is anyone else forever unhappy with to-do apps?” he asked, and a resounding chorus of agreement confirmed his shared pain. From the early days of Todoist and similar apps, K felt a deep need for something more. ...

Presenters Gergely Orosz Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Token Maximizing: The New (and Bizarre) Metric in Big Tech 🤯 Ever feel like you’re drowning in metrics? Well, buckle up, because the tech world has a new, and frankly, wild one: token maximizing. Gergely Orosz, the brilliant mind behind The Pragmatic Engineer, dropped some serious insights on this phenomenon, and it’s a story that’s both hilarious and a little bit terrifying. ...