Self-service infrastructure makes it easy for humans and agents to provision databases without involving SRE or platform teams. But when things go sideways, those same teams can find themselves on-call for infrastructure they didn’t provision. This session explores how teams can maintain resilience as database estates grow, and how an agentic operations layer can reduce the operational burden by continuously observing infrastructure, and recommending remediations and optimizations across the estate. It looks at how teams can move from scaling incident response with database count to policy-based operations, where agents and humans work together, with humans governing what actually executes.
Rob Reid is a Technical Evangelist at Cockroach Labs and an experienced software engineer with a background spanning backend, frontend, messaging, and distributed systems. He is the author of Practical CockroachDB and has also written books on CockroachDB and multi-region application architecture.
