Platforms for AI, and AI for platforms

20–21 November 2026 · TERI Auditorium, Domlur, Bengaluru · Online via livestream

Date update: The Annual Conference will take place on 20–21 November, replacing 13–14 November. The venue and livestream arrangements remain unchanged.

AI is changing the platforms we build, and the platforms themselves shape what AI can do in production.

At Rootconf 2026, meet engineers working through these challenges: serving models, operating agents, reviewing AI-generated code, investigating incidents and keeping infrastructure reliable.

Expect production case studies, technical demonstrations and discussions about what teams tried, what failed and what they would change.

• Platforms for AI: Inference, model serving, agent workloads, evaluation, security and the infrastructure needed to operate them.
• AI for platforms: Code review, incident investigation, debugging, Kubernetes upgrades and developer tooling.

For platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers, security engineers, MLOps and data-infrastructure practitioners, and engineering leaders.

Get your Rootconf membership and attend → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/#tickets
Explore the programme and session timings → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/schedule

Inside the programme: Rolland Santimano’s picks

From attending Rootconf in 2019 to speaking in 2023 and editing this year’s programme, Rolland Santimano has followed the community through changing engineering challenges.

His focus remains the same: production stories that explain the trade-offs, mistakes and lessons behind the work.

His top picks are:

• Setting up your own private AI infrastructure: how hard could it be? — Anant Shrivastava on hardware choices, software, maintenance and the practical responsibilities of owning an AI setup.
• What breaks on the way to 1,000 agents — Nikhilesh Chamarthi on the isolation, orchestration and scaling decisions behind Razorpay’s internal agent platform.
• Controlling the code flood: inside PhonePe’s Arnold — Tushar Naik on building an AI-assisted code-review platform while keeping humans in the loop.

His bonus pick: Surviving the query-pocalypse!, with Gaurav Maheshwari, Co-founder at Oodle AI, on what changes when AI agents become users of your platform.

More from the November programme

When ML serving becomes a distributed systems problem

Vikash Kumar · Software Engineer, InMobi
Follow a production model deployment through readiness, scaling, rollouts, recovery and retirement, and examine how a Kubernetes CRD becomes a long-lived platform API.

Read the submission → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/sub/when-ml-serving-becomes-a-distributed-systems-prob-3p2XsnLCmyqbYPFEPT2orf

48 GPU hours, 10% of the data: debugging an LLM training run

Alosh Denny · Aleddo Technologies/Intensors
A training job repeatedly processed a tenth of its intended dataset. Alosh traces the shared-state failures, missing checkpoints and checks worth running before committing more compute.

• Read the submission → http://has.gy/zg_S**

Benchmarking AI SRE agents before they touch production

Hemant Kumar · Staff SRE, One2N
Compare AI SRE agents on diagnosis quality, missing context and investigation costs, including what happened when a benchmark introduced decoys and noise.

Read the submission → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/sub/benchmarking-ai-sre-agents-before-they-touch-produ-WHA4RdsQ4kGfxTvwhcUgmw

Explore all sessions and timings → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/schedule

One membership, a year of Rootconf

Your membership gives you access to all Rootconf activities for one year, including:

• The Annual Conference on 20–21 November
• Quantization workshop on 22 November
• Chaos engineering workshop on 28 November
• Special edition meet-up on AI for Platforms on 12 December
• Topical Edition on Databases in June 2027, in Bengaluru and online
• Platform Engineering meet-ups and other Rootconf activities during your membership

Continue comparing approaches with practitioners as new engineering questions arise throughout the year.

Book one year’s access to Rootconf → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/#tickets

Put the ideas into practice: November workshops

Rootconf members can register for these hands-on workshops, with in-person and online participation.

22 November · Break a model, then fix it

A hands-on quantization workshop with Alosh Denny

Explore what happens when you quantise a model, deliberately introduce failures, and diagnose them through weight distributions, range and scale. Build an evaluation that checks both capability and whether the model continues to produce useful output.

For developers, platform engineers and MLOps practitioners who want to understand what happens behind a quantisation setting.

Explore the quantisation workshop → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/quantization-workshop/

28 November · Chaos engineering for stateful applications on Kubernetes

Test failover, recovery and data durability in PostgreSQL on Kubernetes.

Use a three-instance CloudNativePG cluster, Chaos Mesh, Prometheus, Grafana and Jepsen to test the guarantees behind “automated failover”. Examine failover time, replication-lag recovery, write-loss windows and what happens when the control plane is unavailable.

Explore the chaos engineering workshop → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/chaos-engineering-workshop/

12 December · A members-only day of talks and workshops

In person and online · Open to Rootconf members

Continue the conversation with sessions on production agents, infrastructure safety, recovery and observability, alongside additional workshops.

Beyond SSE: building resumable agent streams

Aditya Singh · Staff Engineer, Glance (InMobi)

Separate agent execution from response delivery so clients can reconnect through a different gateway and replay missed events.

Read the submission → http://has.gy/SeiC

Querying petabytes of traces: peek inside Grafana Tempo

Suraj Nath · Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs

Explore the storage, query-planning and language-design trade-offs behind Tempo and TraceQL.

Read the submission → http://has.gy/Bt65

From AI agents to AI platform: lessons from building an in-house multi-agent platform

Manas Chaturvedi · Director–Senior Technical Architect, IDfy

Examine how orchestration, state, recovery, cost and evaluation become shared platform concerns as teams move beyond standalone agents.

Read the submission → http://has.gy/TVZ9

The December schedule, venue and additional workshop details will be announced separately.

Reviewed by practitioners, for practitioners

The programme grew from 64 submissions. Community editors and reviewers work with speakers to examine engineering decisions, strengthen evidence and make the trade-offs and practical lessons clear.

The process includes proposal discussions, feedback and rehearsal reviews.

Meet the community editors

• Bharadwaj Embar — Engineering Manager, Platform Engineering, Nutanix
• Rolland Santimano — Principal Engineer, Rubrik
• Talina Shrotiya — Senior Engineering Manager, Couchbase
• Vivek Pemavat — Principal Engineer, Acceldata

“Unlike the traditional ‘submit and wait’ approach, RootConf gives speakers an opportunity to demo their talk before a group of reviewers and receive genuine, constructive feedback on what to improve, add, or refine.”

“The audience was technically strong, curious, and genuinely eager to learn.”

Aftab Mehrab
Presenter, Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference
Production Engineer – Infrastructure, Comply

Meet the companies supporting Rootconf

Meet engineers from Nutanix, our Platinum Sponsor, to learn about their work on resilient platform systems, discuss their products and explore relevant career opportunities.

You will also meet teams from Roku Inc (Silver Sponsor), Fastah (Bronze Sponsor) and ClawMetry (Community Sponsor), and learn about the systems and tools they are building.

Volunteer with Rootconf

Help shape and run Rootconf 2026. Contribute to registration and on-ground coordination, editorial and workshop coordination, live notes, session summaries, or design for stickers, swag and the venue.

Apply to volunteer →

Participate

20–21 November 2026
TERI Auditorium, Domlur, Bengaluru · Online via livestream

Get your Rootconf membership and attend → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/#tickets

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