Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference CfP

At Flipkart, the widespread adoption of our homegrown managed platforms across engineering teams operating at an enormous scale has positioned our platforms offerings as mission-critical infrastructure. Supporting this scale across a multi-cloud environment necessitates high availability, uncompromising resilience, sustained performance, and continuous optimization.
Recent press release about our platform: https://aerospike.com/news/aerospike-database-on-kubernetes-enabled-95-million-transactions-per-second-on-e-commerce-platform-for-festive-sale/

This session explores the intricate challenges and solutions involved in operating one of the vital DbaaS platform with focus on:

A - AVAILABILITY

We will delve into the practical realities of measuring true platform Availability in real-time, moving beyond theoretical nines to scientific computation.

I - INTELLIGENCE

Strategies fused with intelligence for continuous optimization aimed at enhancing platform maintainers productivity and reducing on-call burden.

R - RESILIENCE

Dissecting the complex resiliency trade-offs inherent in multi-cloud DbaaS, especially under the pressure of major events.

DETAILS

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t_y185GV0PeOfeRXHcRowyhn6CRJdbvuWp4HTBnEC9U/edit#slide=id.p
(Slides w.i.p)

KEY TAKEAWAYS FOR ATTENDEES:

• A blueprint for thinking about managed platforms as a holistic ecosystem.
• Practical approaches to measure and improve real-world availability and resilience in multi-cloud setups.
• Proven techniques for optimizing platform operations, enhancing team productivity, and managing opex effectively.
• Inspiration and practical examples for leveraging LLMs to build smarter, self-sufficient infrastructure platforms.
• Valuable insights drawn froms experience operating critical database services at extreme scale.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), Database Administrators (DBAs) & Database Engineers
Platform Engineers & Architects
DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Professionals
Technical Leads & Engineering Managers overseeing large-scale systems
Anyone interested in multi-cloud strategies, database reliability, operational efficiency, and applied AI in infrastructure.

BIO

A Platform Engineer, currently a Tech Lead, with one of the platform team operating at massive scale of nearly 9 digit TPS.