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| With Naveen Kumar (Founder/CEO, Truxt AI), Kir Titievsky (PM, Google), Victoria Wang (SRE BigTable, Google). |
| Chelsea Market, 75 9th Ave |
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Sep 23 (Tue) , 2025 @ 06:00 PM
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Google SRE NYC proudly announces the next event in the Google SRE NYC Tech Talk series.
This event is co-sponsored by Lenses. Thank you Lenses for your partnership!
Join us for an hour of interactive short talks on Site Reliability & DevOps topics with an opportunity to mingle with the speakers & attendees over some light snacks & beverages.
The event will take place on Tuesday, 23rd of September 2025 at 6:30 PM at our Chelsea Markets office in NYC. The doors will open at 6:00 pm. Pls RSVP only if you're able to attend in-person, there will be no live streaming.
When RSVP'ing to this event, please enter your full name exactly as it appears on your government issued ID. You will be required to present your ID at check in.
Agenda:
Kir Titievsky - Sr PM Managed Kafka, Google
In collaboration with Guillaume Ayme (CEO), Drew Oetzel (Developer Advocate), Germain Cassis (Lead sales & alliances), lenses.io
Managing Kafka Reliability
Apache Kafka is the simplest possible reliable, horizontally scalable low-latency storage system for commodity hardware. This is increasingly making it the backbone of analytic data collection stacks & event-bus like architectures. Critical systems like this require very reliable operations. Kafka is both stateful & distributed, so it has traditional sysadmin kind of problems & those that require pretty deep expertise. We will discuss the problems with CPU & disk capacity management as well as defining availability SLOs for a distributed stateful system. We will also show some of the ways in which the Google Cloud Managed Service for Apache Kafka & lenses.io helps in solving these problems in a demo.
After a successful academic career at MIT Kir has over a decade working with several high profile Google Cloud products, specialising in distributed messaging systems. Guillaume is a passionate technologist & thought leader focused on real-time experiences & AI fed by streaming data. His background includes data analytics & cybersecurity at Splunk, HP Software, & Celonis. Drew has over 25 years of experience in distributed systems & data platforms from companies like Splunk, Heptio, & Mesosphere, specializing in optimizing data infrastructure & cloud-native architectures. Germain is growing partnerships & leveraging his experience from Salesforce & Celonis to help businesses with their digital transformations.
Naveen Kumar - Founder & CEO of truxt.ai
Beyond the Dashboard: Enhancing DORA Intelligence with Generative AI
DORA metrics are the gold standard for measuring software delivery performance & stability. However, conventional methods of capturing these metrics are increasingly challenged by siloed DevOps toolchains, manual data collection, & the growing prevalence of AI-generated code in production. Enterprise delivery pipelines demand resilience & accuracy, but today's measurement systems struggle with both integration complexity & the specialized expertise required to operate in large, distributed environments. This talk will discuss these challenges in detail & show how Generative AI can elevate DORA from static, descriptive dashboards to dynamic diagnostic, prescriptive, & predictive insights-unlocking a new era of actionable intelligence.
With deep expertise in Open source Continuous Deployments Technologies, AI, cloud, & DevOps, Naveen has worked with Fortune 100 companies to accelerate AI adoption, ensuring scalability, security, & efficiency in modern enterprises. A recognized thought leader, he is passionate about AI-driven automation, enterprise data governance, & scalable AI architectures.
Victoria Wang - Sr SRE BigTable, Google
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to improve customer self-service & upskill your team's knowledge
SRE gets many customer tickets, some of which are answered in the many go links we have on our page that no one will read. RAG trains an LLm on our codebase, internal documentation, forums, issues queries, etc. These contextual resources help the customer get better answers to their questions faster, freeing up time on both the customer, dev, & SRE side. Additionally, this helps train our team more efficiently as well.
Victoria is a software engineer at Google on the Bigtable Site Reliability Engineering team. Bigtable is a distributed database that stores over 10 Exabytes of data & responds to 8 Billion queries per second while maintaining 5 nines of reliability. She leads the observability squad because she believes telemetry & data analysis are the key to lower toil for a happy team & customers. She's excited for AI use cases in observability & SRE in general & would love to chat about your experiences in this area. In her free time, Victoria enjoys playing tennis, lagree, & in general challenge arcades, particularly Activate Games.
Our Tech Talks series are for professional development & networking: no recruiters, sales or press please! Google is committed to providing a harassment-free & inclusive conference experience for everyone, & all participants must follow our Event Community Guidelines. The event will be photographed & video recorded.
Event space is limited! A reservation is required to attend. Reserve your spot today & share the event details with your SRE/DevOps friends
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