Data Engineering

Presenters Sonali Priya Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Beyond the Basic Three: Building Design Systems That Conquer Enterprise Analytics 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever felt like your design system, the supposed bedrock of consistency and efficiency, is actually crumbling under the weight of complex enterprise analytics? You’re not alone. Sonali Priya, Creative Director at LB Networks, has walked this challenging path and has emerged with a powerful solution: a seven-layer model designed to tackle the unique demands of building and scaling these intricate systems. ...

Presenters Karthik Ravva Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🛡️ Stop Building “Messy” AI: Why Data Governance is Your Most Critical Engineering Discipline In the high-stakes world of utility management, a single prediction error can leave thousands in the dark. Karthik Ravva, a Senior Product Manager at Austin Energy, recently shared a sobering story: a major utility deployed a sophisticated AI model to predict power outages. It had all the bells and whistles—smart meters, real-time weather feeds, and historical data. ...

Presenters Ran Tao Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Migrating Your Messaging Systems to the Cloud: A Journey from On-Prem to Serverless 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered how to untangle your on-prem messaging systems and set them free in the cloud? Today, we’re diving deep into the exciting world of messaging system migrations, exploring the benefits, the pathways, and even a peek at the code that makes it all happen. Get ready to transform your architecture! ...

Presenters Purushotham Jinka Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 The Database Revolution: How Cloud-Native Architectures are Learning to Think for Themselves! 🚀 Hello, tech enthusiasts! Have you ever wondered how the databases powering our increasingly dynamic digital world keep up? For decades, we built our data systems on assumptions of stability: predictable workloads, fixed infrastructure, and manual tuning. But as Purushotham Jinka, a Vice President at Citi focusing on large-scale data and cloud platforms, brilliantly explains, those days are over. We are now witnessing a profound shift in database design, moving from rigid, on-prem models to intelligent, self-optimizing cloud-native architectures. ...

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. ...