20–21 November 2026 · TERI Auditorium, Domlur, Bengaluru · Online via livestream
New conference dates: 20–21 November
Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference has moved to 20–21 November, as many community members will still be away during the earlier dates. The venue remains TERI Auditorium, with livestream access for remote participants.
Alosh Denny’s quantization workshop will take place on 22 November. The chaos engineering workshop remains on 28 November. Four further talks and additional workshops will take place at a members-only event on 12 December.
AI is changing the platforms we build, and the platforms themselves are now a constraint on what AI can do in production.
At Rootconf 2026, meet engineers working through these challenges: serving models, reviewing a flood of AI-generated code, handling agent-generated queries and keeping stateful systems reliable.
This is a two-day, practitioner-led conference for people who build, run and make decisions about platforms. Expect production case studies, technical demonstrations and discussions about what teams tried, what failed and what they would change.
Get your Rootconf membership and attend → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/#tickets
View schedule here: https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/schedule
Tushar Naik · Software Architect, PhonePe
AI can multiply the volume of code an organisation produces. It does not multiply the number of careful human reviewers—or remove the need for them. So where does the bottleneck go?
Tushar will unpack how PhonePe built and scaled Arnold: an asynchronous, distributed code-review platform that orchestrates micro-agents while keeping humans in the loop. This production case study covers the build-versus-buy decision, the architecture behind the review pipeline, the limits of a simple AI loop and the adoption work needed to make an internal platform useful.
Watch the demo and examine what makes code review effective, when an in-house platform is justified and where AI should assist rather than decide.
Read the full submission → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2026/sub/how-phonepes-in-house-code-review-platform-arnold-NuJAg6r8TWdQnEqekev872
Vikash Kumar · Software Engineer, InMobi
Running hundreds of models reliably turns model serving into a control-plane problem. Vikash follows a production model deployment through readiness, scaling, version rollouts, recovery and retirement—and examines how a Kubernetes CRD becomes a long-lived platform API.
Alosh Denny · Aleddo Technologies/Intensors
A training job consumed 48 GPU hours while repeatedly processing a tenth of its intended dataset. Alosh traces the debugging journey through shared-state failures, missing checkpoints and the checks worth running before committing more compute.
Gaurav Maheshwari · Founding Engineer & India Site Lead, Oodle AI
AI agents explore query shapes, work around errors and may keep retrying inefficient requests. Gaurav examines how this changes monitoring, error messages, performance signals and query routing for a production observability platform.
The complete programme and session timings will be published with the schedule.
Rootconf members can register for these hands-on workshops, with in-person participation and hybrid access for remote participants.
A hands-on quantisation workshop with Alosh Denny
Shrink an open model to fit the hardware you have—and prove it still works. Compare memory, speed and capability at different bit widths, and build an evaluation that catches silent failures a headline benchmark can miss.
For platform, infrastructure, MLOps, SRE and serving engineers working with a fixed compute budget.
Explore the quantization workshop → https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/quantization-workshop/
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/
Continue the conversation with four sessions on production agents, infrastructure safety, recovery and observability, alongside additional workshops.
The following talks will take place on 12 December. This event is open to Rootconf members only.
Saurabh Hirani, Principal SRE at One2N
How do you let an infrastructure agent do useful work without giving it unrestricted production access? Saurabh shares Hermes’s production architecture: Slack as the interface, read-only investigation tools, Vault-backed secrets and proposed changes through GitOps pull requests. The central design choice: let the agent investigate, reason and propose, while keeping execution deterministic and auditable.
Aditya Singh · Staff Engineer, Glance (InMobi)
An agent can outlive its client connection—and the client may reconnect through a different gateway. Aditya explains how Glance separates execution from delivery, using Redis Streams for ordered, per-turn replay. Explore how defining the recovery contract shapes the state model, technology choices and operational trade-offs.
Suraj Nath · Senior Software Engineer, Grafana Labs
How do you query petabytes of deeply nested trace data on object storage? Suraj explores Grafana Tempo’s columnar storage, query planning and sharding, and the trace-specific questions behind TraceQL’s design. A look at the trade-offs between storage cost, indexing and query latency.
Manas Chaturvedi · Director–Senior Technical Architect, IDfy
Moving agents into production makes orchestration, state, recovery, cost and evaluation shared platform concerns. Manas explains IDfy’s move from standalone agents to an internal multi-agent platform, prioritising predictable execution over autonomy. He also examines how evaluations and A/B testing help validate improvements before promoting new versions.
The December schedule, participation details and additional workshops will be announced separately.
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Keep comparing approaches with practitioners as new engineering questions arise throughout the year.
Team bookings receive 5% off for 5 or more tickets, and 10% off for 10 or more tickets.
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Platforms for AI: Inference, model serving, agent workloads and the infrastructure, observability, security, governance and cost controls they require.
AI for platforms: AI applied to incident response, debugging, deployments, security workflows, code review and developer tooling.
Reliability, databases, distributed systems and day-to-day operations remain central. If you are a platform engineer, SRE, DevOps engineer, security engineer, MLOps engineer, data-infrastructure practitioner or engineering leader, bring your questions and experience.
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.
Community editors review proposals, discuss them with speakers, review rehearsals and help strengthen the evidence, trade-offs and practical lessons in each session.
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Aftab Mehrab
Presenter, Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference
Production Engineer – Infrastructure, Comply
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20–21 November 2026
TERI Auditorium, Domlur, Bengaluru · Online via livestream
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Tushar Naik
Sanjay Kuniya
09 Oct 2026
Alosh Denny
29 Sep 2026
Suraj Nath
29 Sep 2026
Aditya Singh
17 Sep 2026
The Energy Resources Institute (TERI)
4th Main Road, Domlur II Stage,
153, 2nd Cross Rd, Phase 3, BDA Colony, Stage 2, Domlur
Bengaluru - 560071
Karnataka, IN
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