Data Engineering

Presenters Dipta Rakshit Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Building AI-Driven Platforms That Save Lives (and Sales!) 🚀💖🛍️ Hello, tech enthusiasts! Dipta Rakshit from Walmart Global Tech (and Northeastern Hill University) takes us on an incredible journey today, exploring the demanding world of building reliable AI-driven mobile platforms for healthcare and commerce. Imagine creating one powerful platform that navigates the life-and-death stakes of healthcare while simultaneously powering the dynamic world of online shopping. That’s precisely the fascinating challenge Dipta and his team tackle! ...

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. 🛡️ ...

Presenters Khushboo Nigam Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Unraveling the Chaos: Why Correlating Telemetry is the New Superpower for Cloud-Native Observability ✨ Hey tech enthusiasts! Khushboo Nigam, a Cloud Architect specializing in observability for cloud-native systems, recently shed light on a pervasive challenge facing SRE teams today. It’s not about collecting more data; it’s about making sense of the massive amounts of telemetry modern distributed systems generate. The core message is clear: Correlation over Collection. ...

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 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. ...