Conf42 SRE 2026

Presenters Raman Tehlan Shubham Rai Source Conf42 SRE 2026 CruiseCube: 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 CruiseCube, 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? ...

Presenters Daniel Raskin David McNerney Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🕵️‍♂️ When the Stack Lies: Unmasking Root Cause in Distributed Systems In the high-stakes world of modern enterprise technology, the “stack” often tells half-truths. As we migrate from classic three-tiered architectures to hyper-distributed environments, the complexity of our systems is outstripping our ability to monitor them. Daniel Raskin (CMO at Vertana) and David McNerney (Director of Product Management at Vertana) recently sat down to dissect why traditional observability is failing and how a system-aware approach can save the day. ...

Presenters Uma Mukkara Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Hello everyone, and welcome to a crucial discussion from the Con42 Site Reliability Engineering conference 2026! I’m your host, diving deep into insights shared by Uma Mukkara, Product Lead for Resilience Testing at Harness and co-creator of the CNCF-hosted chaos engineering tool, LitmusChaos. Today, we’re unpacking a truth that’s becoming increasingly evident in our fast-paced tech world: resilience testing isn’t just important; it’s absolutely non-negotiable in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). ...