Observability

Presenters Shruthi Sepuri Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Beyond Uptime: Why Your “Healthy” System Might Still Be Failing the Business 🚀 In the world of regulated enterprise platforms, we often obsess over a single version of the truth: the dashboard. If the lights are green, we breathe a sigh of relief. But what if those green lights are lying? Shruthi Sepuri, an expert in enterprise systems testing and reliability, argues that for systems making high-stakes business decisions, technical health is no longer the gold standard. A system can have 99.99% uptime and still be a catastrophic failure if the decisions it automates are wrong. ...

Presenters Makarand Gujarathi Source Conf42 SRE 2026 From Chaos to Clarity: Revolutionizing Incident Response with AI and MCP 🚀 In the world of modern software, the transition from monoliths to microservices has brought unparalleled scale but also a massive headache for on-call engineers. If you have ever been paged at 2:00 AM, you know the drill: a single user request might touch five to 10 microservices, each with its own database, cache, and deployment pipeline. When things break, the noise is deafening. ...

Presenters Jyothish Sreedharan Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Building Resilient Data Pipelines: AI Governance Meets Stream Processing 🚀 In today’s data-driven world, organizations thrive on massive data pipelines that pull information from a multitude of sources – databases, APIs, event streams, and logs. However, these pipelines often falter due to evolving data structures (schema drift), subtle meaning changes (semantic inconsistencies), and the sheer complexity of operations. Enter Jyothish Sreedharan, who presents a groundbreaking architecture that harmonizes stream processing, semantic intelligence, and cloud-native infrastructure to create injection systems that are not just self-adapting and resilient, but truly production-ready. ...

Presenters Ajay Athitya Ramanathan Source Conf42 SRE 2026 From Chatbots to Agents: Engineering Safe Autonomy in Production 🚀 In the rapidly evolving world of Artificial Intelligence, we are witnessing a massive shift. AI is no longer just a tool that assists humans; it is becoming a system that takes action. Ajay Athitya Ramanathan, a Data and AI Engineer at Fort Square, specializes in this very frontier: integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise systems and designing workflows where AI interacts with real production data. ...

Presenters Rakesh Kumar Kavsari Gopal Source Conf42 SRE 2026 Building Unbreakable Systems: A Resilient AI Platform for Crisis-Ready Healthcare and Finance 🚀 Hello, tech enthusiasts! Rakesh Kumar Kavsari Gopal here, a Technical Architect with 17 years of experience steering enterprise-level software solutions across vital sectors like healthcare, banking, finance, and e-commerce. My passion lies in crafting distributed systems, resilient platform designs, and AI infrastructure for mission-critical environments. As a certified Google Professional Cloud Solution Architect, AWS Solution Architect Professional, and AWS Certified Machine Learning Specialty with hands-on expertise in Kafka (both on-premises and cloud), I bridge the gap between enterprise reliability engineering and real-world crisis preparedness, especially for the vulnerable communities served by healthcare and financial systems. ...