System Architecture and Design

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 Suganya Nagarajan Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🚀 Beyond Blind Automation: The Power of Human-Governed AI Loops In the high-stakes world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we face a recurring dilemma: as systems scale, manual interventions become a bottleneck, yet blind automation remains a dangerous liability. I am Suganya Nagarajan, an engineering manager with a decade of experience in large-scale distributed systems. Today, I want to share a framework to bridge this gap: Human-Governed Automation Loops (HAL). This approach ensures that our AI systems remain reliable, accountable, and safe, even as they operate at breakneck speeds. ...

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. ...