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saurabh hirani

saurabh hirani

@saurabh_hirani

Principal SRE at One2N. Working on enabling customers with their platform engineering, SRE and AI-in-production initiatives.

  • Joined Jun 2013

Ten years of Hasgeek

Happy Birthday HasGeek!

HasGeek has influenced and shaped up my career in many ways. It has given me and many others a platform to start out public speaking in the easiest and friendliest way possible. I still remember having second thoughts about submitting my first talk for Rootconf thinking it will be a black box selection process. But it turned out to be more of an engaging discussion and iterative approach to honin… more
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  • Submitted
  • 16 Dec 2020

Rootconf 2015

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Inframer - know thy infra

Every DevOps team manages infrastructure distributed across different databases - chef, icinga, vmware, etc. The information in each database is queryable through their APIs but there isn’t one roof under which you can look at all the information about a node. Neither can you do a diff of different databases and answer questions like - How many cheffed nodes are not being monitored through icinga… more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 20 Mar 2015
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate

Rootconf 2016

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The transition: Manual => Automated => Distributed monitoring

Everyone talks the benefits of having an automated monitoring system in place - one which can discover infrastructure components as they are added, monitor them while they are alive and stop monitoring when they are moved out. But no one has chronicled their journey through the process of automating a manually maintained monitoring system and showcased their battle scars for others to learn from.… more
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  • Confirmed & scheduled
  • 15 Jan 2016
Section: Crisp talk Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Call for round the year submissions for Rootconf in 2020

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The curious case of slow/fast grequests code

If you have made a single HTTP request in Python, you have probably used the requests module. more
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  • Submitted
  • 01 Oct 2019
Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Rootconf 2025 Annual Conference CfP

Scaling Gunicorn with KEDA: Hard Lessons from Production

A customer running a Python Django app with Gunicorn on Kubernetes faced growing complaints about slow response times. more
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  • Submitted
  • 13 Apr 2025
Topic of your submission: SRE Type of submission: 30 mins talk I am submitting for: Rootconf Annual Conference 2025

Rootconf 2026 Annual Conference

Observing AI apps: know your instrumentation

Summary As we helped customers instrument their AI applications, the tooling matured alongside the work, and each engagement pushed us to cover more surface area and get more visibility: from vanilla OpenTelemetry on RAG apps, to OpenLLMetry, the Bifrost AI gateway, and OpenLIT for agents, and now Langfuse. We rebuilt each stage on an open-source reference setup to show what each approach sees, w… more
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  • Submitted
  • 03 Oct 2026
I am submitting: To speak I have a submission for: A talk - 30-40 mins