Strengthening Regulated Production Systems | Shruthi Sepuri | Conf42 SRE 2026

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. ...

March 19, 2026 · 4 min

AI-Governed Lakehouse Ingestion with Flink on Kubernetes | Jyothish Sreedharan | Conf42 SRE 2026

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. ...

March 19, 2026 · 7 min

Autonomy with Guardrails: Operating Agentic Automation | Ajay Athitya Ramanathan | Conf42 SRE 2026

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. ...

March 19, 2026 · 5 min

Operating Predictive Analytics at Scale | Prajakta Talathi | Conf42 SRE 2026

Presenters Prajakta Talathi Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🚀 Beyond Accuracy: Operating Predictive Analytics with SRE Precision In the high-stakes world of education finance, a model is only as good as the decisions it enables. Imagine shipping a model with stellar test results, only to watch it stumble in the real world when student funding and tuition timelines are on the line. I am Prajakta Talathi, and I work at the intersection of data strategy, analytics, and business execution. Today, we explore how to move beyond simply shipping models to operating them as reliable services using Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles. ...

March 19, 2026 · 4 min

Reliable AI for Clinical Handoffs: SRE Lessons | Abhiram Potharaju | Conf42 SRE 2026

Presenters Abhiram Potharaju Source Conf42 SRE 2026 🤖 Reliable AI for Safer Healthcare: Elevating Clinical Handoffs with Site Reliability Engineering 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts and healthcare innovators! 👋 Abhiram Potharaju here, and today we’re diving deep into a topic that sits at the intersection of cutting-edge AI and critical patient care: reliable AI for clinical handoffs. This isn’t just about making software smarter; it’s about fundamentally improving patient safety during those pivotal moments when care responsibility shifts. ...

March 19, 2026 · 7 min