System Architecture and Design

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. ...

Presenters Cijin Lonappan Kappani Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 The Autonomous Revolution: How Cloud-Native Commerce is Delivering the Future 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Sijin Lonappan Kappani, a Technical Program Manager at Walmart with two years of hands-on experience in drone and autonomous vehicle deliveries, is here to spill the beans on something truly game-changing: how autonomous delivery and multi-model fulfillment systems are not just a future concept, but are actively reshaping cloud-native commerce today. We’re diving deep into the “why,” the “how,” and the “what’s next” – and trust me, this isn’t just theory; this is production-level innovation! ...

Presenters Aleksandr Pinaev Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🔥 MCP Servers on Fire: Securing the AI Revolution’s Control Layer Hey there, tech enthusiasts! Aleksandr Pinaev, founder of Swordfish Security, recently ignited a crucial conversation about the security landscape of Multi-Capability Protocol (MCP) servers in cloud systems. While the excitement around MCP is absolutely justified – it makes AI systems incredibly useful by connecting them to real tools, data, and workflows – Aleksandr challenged us to look beyond the hype. His central question was simple yet profound: When MCP becomes part of cloud architecture, where does the real security risk come from? ...