SREday is a worldwide series of community events for engineers who build, ship and run modern software systems. Across cities around the world, we bring together people working in reliability, cloud, DevOps, observability and production engineering to share real-world experience, connect with their local community and explore how these disciplines are evolving in the age of AI.
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Vivekanandan KS
Independent Contractor
Nix for SRE: The Zero-drift Hermetic infrastructure for Determinism
Abstract
Nix is a crucial technology for a wide range of domain in IT world, one of the important domain is SRE. In this talk I aim to shift the audience's thinking towards SRE and how we improve the workflow. I'll explain the big loopholes in the current industry standards and explain it's hidden technical debt in energy, time, cost etc I'll quickly introduce Nix and explain how it fits in the SRE domain. I'll explain the mental modal of proactive reliability vs passive reliability. I'll also explain why determinism is crucial for SRE. The talk will also give an idea of how Nix + AI + SRE is way better than just using AI + SRE. In short: Determinism is more important than one might ever think which traditional approaches tries their best, but nothing ever came close to what Nix does in the history of tech. Key takeaways: What typical and AI first SRE lacks How Nix makes infra easy to predict and gives true determinism How Nix provides sovereignty for SRE How Nix removes the complexity of DevOps, SRE workflows Why it's better to use Nix + AI instead of using AI for SRE etc Change in mental model of how u think about the whole SDLC process Note: Though the topic and description may sound too technical, it actually isnt. It's just a different way of thinking. So this talk is for everyone from beginners to veterans.
Bio
A passionate Linux and Nix/NixOS guy who thrives on learning, exploring, and implementing open-source solutions. Driven by a love for DevOps and solving complex technical problems, he is a creative at heart - and a bassist on hiatus - who loves good stories, music, and anime.
Neel Shah
StackGen
The Rise of Agentic SRE: Humans, Agents, and Reliability
Abstract
From Reactive to Intelligent: Site Reliability Engineering is Moving Towards Autonomy. As organisations deploy increasingly complex and distributed architectures, traditional methods of incident response based on reactive practices fall behind. The need arises for smarter automation which would allow for quicker detection of anomalies, faster context analysis, and timely interventions within defined constraints. In this sense, agentic SRE is emerging as a discipline in which AI agents learn to analyze telemetry data, establish relationships among various system components, and help SREs with triage, diagnostics, and troubleshooting while respecting certain boundaries. In this talk, I will discuss the principles of building a robust and dependable platform for agentic SRE, the key components that constitute the architecture, and the observability layer which provides foundational data. I will also examine the necessary safeguards required to ensure autonomy while at the same time keeping operations secure and auditable. Finally, through examples of practical use cases, such as alert triaging, incident copiloting, root cause analysis, and bounded automated remediation, we will explore how AI can be integrated into operations to improve reliability.
Bio
Neel Shah is a Developer Advocate at StackGen and a Google Developer Expert (GDE) for Cloud, based in India. He helps platform engineers and DevOps teams understand and adopt cloud-native infrastructure through talks, live demos, and community building having spoken at 40+ events worldwide, including KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India, PlatformCon, HashiTalks, OpenSearchCon Korea, FOSSASIA, and LinuxFest Northwest. His work centers on Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Vault), AI-powered DevOps tooling, and observability pipelines. Neel organizes the CNCF Gandhinagar, HashiCorp User Group Gandhinagar, and Google Cloud Gandhinagar communities, and has mentored 15+ hackathons and open-source programs. He holds certifications including GCP DevOps Professional, Azure AZ-104, FinOps Certified Engineer, Terraform Associate, and Vault Associate, and has been recognized as Sessionize's Most Active Speaker in both 2024 and 2025.
