System Architecture and Design

Presenters Shweta Vohra Joseph Stein Source InfoQ podcast 🚀 Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Building the Next-Gen AI Operating Model If your team has AI running in a proof of concept but struggles to deploy it reliably in production, you are navigating the most critical gap in modern engineering. In this episode of the Next Generation Playbook for AI, Shweta Vohra sits down with industry veteran Joseph Stein to decode how we move from simple chatbots to autonomous agentic systems without descending into architectural chaos. ...

Presenters Alexandre Gaudreault Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Unpacking the Argo CD Sync: A Deep Dive into the GitOps Engine 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wondered what really happens under the hood when Argo CD orchestrates your application deployments? Today, we’re pulling back the curtain on the intricate dance between Argo CD and its GitOps engine. Alexandre Gaudreault, Staff Software Engineer at Intuit and Argo maintainer, recently shed some light on this complex process, and we’re here to break it down for you! 💡 ...

Presenters Carlos Sanchez Kevin Dubois Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 Hey there, tech enthusiasts! 👋 Ever wondered how we can make our software deployments smarter, safer, and lightning-fast in this age of AI? Carlos Sanchez from Adobe and Kevin Dubois from IBM recently took us on an exhilarating journey, revealing how Argo Rollouts and AI agents are teaming up to revolutionize progressive delivery. Get ready to dive into the future of deployments! ...

Presenters Kunal Das Hrittik Roy Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 From Over-provisioned to Optimized: Automating FinOps with GitOps In the world of Kubernetes, over-provisioning isn’t just a mistake—it is a structural reality. We often treat it as a “safety tax” to ensure our applications run 24/7, but that tax is becoming increasingly expensive. At a recent talk, Hrittik Roy (Platform Advocate at Loft Labs and CNCF Ambassador) and Kunal Das shared a provocative truth: your massive cloud bill isn’t an architecture problem; it is an automation problem. ...

Presenters Dan Garfield Revital Barletz Antonela Cukurin Gabriel Quennesson Source ArgoCon Europe 2026 🚀 Beyond the Code: Navigating the Cultural Shift to GitOps In the world of cloud-native technology, we often spend our days obsessing over application sets, API rate limits, and directory structures. But as any seasoned engineer will tell you, the hardest part of digital transformation isn’t the software—it’s the people. Recently, Dan Garfield (VP of Open Source at Octopus Deploy and Argo Maintainer) sat down with Antonela Cukurin (Novo Nordisk) and Gabriel Quennesson (Michelin) to discuss the reality of adopting GitOps at a massive scale. From regulated pharma environments to global manufacturing giants, the consensus is clear: GitOps is a cultural revolution disguised as a technical workflow. ...