SREday Cologne 2025 Q2
as the organisers put it
Conference on Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud and DevOps. Probably the most awesome SRE conference in Cologne, Germany!
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| AI Agents for Incident Management | Birol Yildiz | 30m |
An AI responder agent that runs a reasoning loop over observability and code is built and demoed: it integrates via the model context protocol with sources… | ||
| Staying in your lane: incident response for leaders | Kat Gaines | 18m |
Defines incidents and insists leaders mostly stay out of the way, stepping in only when asked, when protocol demands, or to correct a clear major mistake… | ||
| Platform Engineering for Private Cloud | Michael Coté | 25m |
Estimates show 50–60% workloads on private cloud and surveys find many organizations want on‑prem AI, so private cloud matters; Kubernetes alone frequently… | ||
| DevOps XXL: Scale-up in Large Setups with SRE | Michael Huttermann | 22m |
Argues that DevOps now behaves like a commodity in large enterprises and that scaling requires concrete moves: deploy databases and schema changes alongside… | ||
| Automating SRE Operations with Multi-Agent AI | Alina Astapovich | 34m |
Platform team builds "Infra Assistant" that answers Slack support queries and executes ops via APIs using a vector DB fed nightly by a cronjob from Slack… | ||
| Orchestrating 10,000+ K8s deployments with 1 pipeline | Andrada Raducanu | 26m |
Claims a single Asure DevOps template pipeline automates CI/CD for 1,400+ onboarded microservices and drives over 10,000+ Kubernetes deployments in six months… | ||
| How to tame chaos effectively? | Agnieszka Welian | 23m |
Explains practical chaos engineering: run controlled failures starting in dev, instrument steady‑state metrics and automate experiments as a gated step… | ||
| Cloud infrastructure with AWS Cloud Development Kit | Bohdan Pohorilets | 19m |
Live demo shows infrastructure written in AWS CDK using TypeScript, with two stacks deployed: a VPC and Elastic Beanstalk application. Commands shown: make… | ||
| Navigating Managed Databases for Over a Decade as a Non-DBA | Renato Losio | 26m |
Fifteen years of running AWS RDS teaches concrete rules: migrations to Aurora fail if primary is ahead of replicas so you can be blocked for 6–9 months… | ||
| From Firefighting to Zero-Touch | Michele Dodic | 23m |
Claims a reproducible path from reactive monitors to zero-touch AIOps by layering contextualized observability (logs/metrics/traces → topology/cause)… | ||
| Text to Visuals: Observe your GitHub repos efficiently | Syed Usman Ahmad | 30m |
Grafana’s GitHub data source installs from the plugin UI, uses a GitHub API token (GraphQL) and pulls issues, PRs and workflows into panels; the demo shows… | ||
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