In complex platform environments, incidents don’t always begin with loud failures, they start with subtle drifts, degraded assumptions, and silent breaks in mental models. This talk tells the story of a narrative-driven coordination system inspired by Resilience Engineering principles, and how we can build a more adaptive, human-aware internal platform. We’ll explore building distributed container systems using k0rdent and implementing a resilient infrastructure tackling surfaced weak signals, mapped operator intent, and supported resilient behaviors not just at runtime, but across platform workflows. Along the way, we’ll unpack real patterns from platform SRE practice: designing for graceful failure, enabling improvisation, and embedding recovery capacity into developer tools. Whether you’re building golden paths or operating shared infrastructure, this talk will show how narrative, adaptation, and feedback loops are key to resilient platforms and the teams who build them.
Prithvi Raj is a Community Manager & Developer Advocate at Mirantis working with the Open Source Program Office team. He is a CNCF Ambassador with 5+ years of experience who helped scale a CNCF incubating project in LitmusChaos and runs the Platform & Resilience Engineering Meetup group. He is an active member at SIG Project Reviews and is currently leading the community efforts for the k0s project, k0rdent, OpenSDN, and the other OSS initiatives Mirantis is contributing to.
He is a co-organizer to KCD Bengaluru, and previously did Chaos Carnival, LitmusChaosCon and KCD Chennai. He was previously at Harness, ChaosNative, and MayaData.
