Securing Production Debugging at Hyperscale | Shridivya Sharma and Luke Kelly from Microsoft

Presenters Shridivya Sharma Luke Kelly Source Scale Systems and Reliability 2026 Rethinking Production Debugging at Hyperscale: Safer, Faster, and Smarter with Cosmic 🚀 In the world of massive cloud infrastructure, debugging live systems presents a colossal challenge. Imagine managing tens of millions of pods across thousands of clusters, spread across the globe, running diverse workloads. That’s the reality for Microsoft’s Cosmic platform, and it demanded a complete overhaul of how production debugging is handled. Shridivya Sharma and Luke Kelly from Microsoft Substrate recently shared their journey in transforming this critical process, moving from high-privilege access to an AI-driven, secure, and scalable solution. ...

June 26, 2026 · 7 min