Observability

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 Mohiadeen Ameer Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Unlocking Cloud-Native Resilience: Why Event-Driven Validation is the Future for Healthcare 🚀 Hello everyone! Mohiadeen Ameer from Dell Technologies here, and I’m thrilled to dive into a topic that’s critical for anyone building cloud-native systems today, especially in high-stakes environments like healthcare: event-driven validation for cloud-native resilience. The central idea is clear: traditional validation methods simply cannot keep pace with the dynamic, distributed, and interdependent nature of modern cloud-native systems. What once worked in slower, more static enterprise environments now falls short when we deal with thousands of microservices, extensive APIs, multiple containers, asynchronous data pipelines, and cross-platform dependencies that are constantly changing. ...

Presenters Andrew Espira Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🚀 Mastering the Chaos: Bringing SRE Principles to AI Agent Orchestration The AI revolution is moving fast, and for many engineering teams, the infrastructure is quickly becoming a wild west. Andrew Espira, a founding engineer at Castro, recently shared how his team tackled the daunting complexity of managing hundreds of AI agents across dozens of environments. When you have agents spinning up sub-agents, executing thousands of parallel tasks, and calling various services, traditional monitoring simply falls short. Enter Agency—a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to bring order, visibility, and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) rigor to your agentic workflows. ...

Presenters Dreema Patel Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🌐 Mastering the Invisible: Engineering Complex Systems with AI In the modern enterprise, we build massive, interconnected architectures—APIs, microservices, and cloud infrastructures—that power our global digital existence. But there is a silent challenge lurking in the background: Invisible Complexity. Software Engineer Dreema Patel recently shared her insights on how engineering teams can move beyond manual maintenance and leverage AI to tame the complexity of modern distributed systems. ...

Presenters Sampath Rao Madarapu Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 From Manual To Mindful: Navigating the Future of AI-Augmented Azure Operations 🚀 In the fast-paced world of cloud infrastructure, the difference between a minor hiccup and a major outage often comes down to how quickly an engineer can connect the dots. Sampath Rao Madarapu, a Senior Technical Advisor at Microsoft, works on the front lines of Azure infrastructure support. He sees the daily struggle of enterprise customers as they navigate the ever-expanding complexity of the cloud. ...