Production AI at Google & Automation in Operations

Two exciting topics, two very experienced speakers and much networking opportunity. We are very much looking forward to the next DevOps Meetup Zurich.

Here's what's planned for the evening:
17:30 - 18:00 - Arrival and first drinks
18:00 - 18:45 - Production AI at Google by Ramón Medrano Llamas
18:45 - 19:30 - Automation in Operations. 15 things you should automate in the cloud by Michal Kolodziej
19:30 - 20:30 - Networking, Open Space & More drinks

Production AI at Google
Gemini is becoming the backbone of many new features and services across the Google portfolio, and SRE / DevOps is no different.

On this talk we introduce the latest advancements in what we call Production AI: AI for SRE. This includes our latest work in autonomous agents for operations, troubleshooting and production management; how we see models evolving for this area and whether we need bespoke, specialist models on top LLMs; what techniques we have used (either successfully or not) for each use case; metrics around the impact and size of the opportunity and finally, a demonstration of an "SRE Agent" built on top of GCP's offerings.

Ramón Medrano Llamas
Ramón is a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google where he works on the Identity team. He started back in 2011 as an intern and has since then become team Technical Lead (TL), Engineering Manager and recently moved into a üTL role for the Privacy, Safety and Security teams. Their role is to store, manage and safeguard user accounts, from account creation down to credential management passing by account security like hijacking and phishing protection. The team employs hundreds of microservices across the stack, that offers a variety of protocols and APIs to customers. They run in thousands of machines in tens of data centres across the globe and must be as reliable as possible as not only other Google products depend on them, but also people and enterprises worldwide that use Google, Workspace and the Google Cloud Platform.
Prior to Google, Ramón worked at CERN, being part of the Physics Department and the ATLAS Collaboration, where he developed the ROOT framework for data analysis and then the functional testing framework to validate and ensure the reliability of the distributed computing facilities that allowed for the Higgs Boson discovery in 2012.
He holds a Computer Engineering MSc and Ph.D. For the last decade has been researching part time on autonomic computing and the management of computer fleets in data centres and enterprises to optimise and reduce the power usage of them

Automation in Operations. 15 things you should automate in the cloud
Having infrastructure that is easy to reproduce, less prone to errors, efficient, well-documented, and quick to set up is crucial for modern IT approaches. However, it's not just the infrastructure that needs automation. There are various tasks related to ensuring the availability and security of IT systems that can also benefit from automation. During this session, I'll share with you 15 proven ideas on what daily operations tasks and incident response procedures you can automate especially in the cloud, and how to go about it. Additionally, I'll show you how to incorporate artificial intelligence capabilities to make your operations life even easier.
By the end of this talk, you'll have a better understanding of how automation can streamline your IT operations, reduce manual effort, and enhance overall efficiency.

Michal Kolodziej
Software and Solutions Architect with over 15 years of experience designing and implementing complex enterprise IT systems. Specializes in modern architectural approaches, including event-driven systems and microservices, with a focus on maintaining simplicity in enterprise environments. Cloud technology enthusiast with a proven track record of leading digital transformation initiatives, particularly in the public sector. Lecturer at a university of applied sciences on cybersecurity and machine learning topics.

Many thanks to our sponsor:

• Location & Apéro Sponsor: Cognizant https://www.cognizant.com/ch/de