SREDay - Cologne

Agnieszka Welian

Imagine a self-healing system that handles surprises at letting you sleep peacefully. If that sounds appealing, chaos engineering could be the answer. Trusted by Netflix, LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook, it's key for business resilience. In this session, we'll explore its history, learn how to apply its principles to stress-test applications, and review tools for fault injection in real-world scenarios.

Alina Astapovich

SRE teams often face challenges with a high volume of routine tasks and requests at making it difficult to focus on critical, high-priority issues. At Electrolux, we faced the same challenge, which led us to develop InfraAssistant —a multi-agent AI-powered solution designed to automate key operational tasks such as infrastructure management, user onboarding, and responding to internal requests.

Alina Astapovich

SRE teams often face challenges with a high volume of routine tasks and requests at making it difficult to focus on critical, high-priority issues. At Electrolux, we faced the same challenge, which led us to develop InfraAssistant —a multi-agent AI-powered solution designed to automate key operational tasks such as infrastructure management, user onboarding, and responding to internal requests.

Andrada Raducanu

There is a sea of tools one can use for the critical phase of Deployment during your SDLC. To keep our environment secure and reliable at ING chose to work with Kubernetes and Azure DevOps. In this talk, we will share the success story of how 1200 in-house developed APIs reached 10 000+ Production deployments in half a year, using one single pipeline. In order to stay in control, we use Open Policy Agent. To ensure the reliability and the resilience of the APIs, we use tools like: QuotaAutoscaler (ING open source CRD) and HorizontalPodAustoscaler, native rollback mechanisms with Helm, automatic certificates using CertManager and Prometheus monitoring. The pipeline deploys code in Azure Kubernetes Service and on-prem Kubernetes clusters. This solution was built as a platform, designed to be agnostic to the target system, reducing the cognitive load on the teams and allowing them to focus on the application development. We call this The Kingsroad.

Birol Yildiz

AI agents are transforming incident management by automating detection at diagnosis, and response. This keynote explores how intelligent systems can reduce downtime, enhance decision-making, and streamline operations, offering a glimpse into the future of autonomous incident resolution.

Birol Yildiz

AI agents are transforming incident management by automating detection at diagnosis, and response. This keynote explores how intelligent systems can reduce downtime, enhance decision-making, and streamline operations, offering a glimpse into the future of autonomous incident resolution.

Bohdan Pohorilets

This hands-on workshop guides engineers in developing cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK to make a web application public. Participants will learn how to spin up at deploy, and tear down cloud resources with a few console commands. Key technologies include AWS (CDK, S3, Lambda, RDS) and Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL. Attendees need AWS and GitHub accounts, CLI tools, and specific runtime environments. The session balances interactive deployments with insights into cloud architecture and best practices.

Dr. Michael Hüttermann

This session derives Dos and Donts from very large setups. It aims to draw a thin line between DevOps and SRE at defines those two concepts and offers practical guidance how to leverage both. We discuss how to bring together the communities of DevOps and SRE. This interactive session is based on both, good practices from the field and insights from academic research.

Kat Gaines

During incident response at every second counts. As a leader, you're expected to have all the answers, and that pressure can make it very tempting to play the hero and take control of the response process. While "I'll just do it myself" may seem faster on occasion, this instinct can hinder your team's effectiveness and actually slow down resolution.

Michael Cote

Platform engineeringis the art of building and managing the infrastructure that powers your applications: a mix of cloud at a handful of DevOps, a pinch of SRE, and a thick glaze of product management. While it’s “nothing new,” many organizations are just starting to practice it—and for good reason. But what happens when your platform is running on private cloud?

Michele Dodic

Explore how AIOps at combined with Observability and Chaos Engineering, is empowering SREs to transform IT operations into a strategic driver of business value. This session delves into strategies for achieving end-to-end visibility and resilience—from infrastructure and applications to business processes. Learn how advanced analytics, AI and automation can optimize the user journey, enhance customer experiences, and drive measurable business impact. Through real-world case studies and a zero-touch AIOps demo powered by GenAI, gain actionable insights to predict failures, address vulnerabilities, and ensure seamless system performance across the entire operational stack.

Michele Dodic

Explore how AIOps at combined with Observability and Chaos Engineering, is empowering SREs to transform IT operations into a strategic driver of business value. This session delves into strategies for achieving end-to-end visibility and resilience—from infrastructure and applications to business processes. Learn how advanced analytics, AI and automation can optimize the user journey, enhance customer experiences, and drive measurable business impact. Through real-world case studies and a zero-touch AIOps demo powered by GenAI, gain actionable insights to predict failures, address vulnerabilities, and ensure seamless system performance across the entire operational stack.