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SUMMARY:From Silent Data Failures to Enforceable CI/CD Gates
DESCRIPTION:LOCATION ADDRESS (Hybrid\, in person or by zoom\, you choose)\nValley Research Park\n319 North Bernardo Avenue\nMountain View\, CA 94043\nDon’t use the front door. When facing the front door\, turn right along the front of the building. Turn left around the building corner. The 2nd door should be open and have a banner and event registration. \nIf you want to join remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/95226212956?pwd=HnAedzSDGcYAYsCzTuavIvMYMFtILa.1](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/95226212956?pwd=HnAedzSDGcYAYsCzTuavIvMYMFtILa.1)\nJoin via YouTube:\n[https://youtube.com/live/cu5TDl8N2Mk](https://youtube.com/live/cu5TDl8N2Mk) \nAGENDA\n6:30 Door opens\, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)\n**7:00** SFBay ACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 speaker presentation starts\n8:15 – 8:30 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on: \n**Talk Description**:\nTraditional CI pipelines answer whether code builds and tests pass\, but data pipelines can deploy successfully while producing incorrect data. This session presents four enforceable gates organized by the defects they catch: transformation correctness\, cross-system integration\, contract compliance\, and production observability. It explains which gates should block merges\, which should block deployments\, and how production incidents should become lower-layer regression tests. Examples use Spark\, Kafka\, CDC\, and lakehouse failure modes. \nSpeaker Bio:\nKunal Jain\, Software Engineer 3 at Adobe. I build and operate large-scale data platforms and hold a Master of Software Engineering in Scalable Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. I previously spoke at STAREAST 2026.\nLinks: [https://kunal-jain.com](https://kunal-jain.com/) | [https://linkedin.com/in/kunalpjain](https://linkedin.com/in/kunalpjain) \n— \nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs\, wet labs\, and high power labs sized from 125-15\,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms\, conference rooms\, outdoor dining spaces\, and recreational spaces. \nAs a plug-and-play lab space\, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand\, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.\nhttps://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
URL:https://svec.org/event/from-silent-data-failures-to-enforceable-ci-cd-gates/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Building the Production Infrastructure Your Agents Actually Need
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid event: In-person\, Zoom \nIf you want to join discussion remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[https://acm-org.zoom.us/](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/93726127628?pwd=qUqkfAHTxEAaEmfQYAbZmZtlzjYOoz.1) will be provided before 7:00pm of the event date. RSVP to get the link. \nAGENDA\n6:30 pre-sign in to test and chat\n**7:00** SFBayACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 speaker presentation starts\n8:15 – 8:30 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion in person at VRP \n**Abstract:**\nRemember when everyone rushed to ship microservices without service discovery\, circuit breakers\, or tracing? AI agents are in that exact “wild west” phase right now. Everyone is building them; very few are thinking about the infrastructure underneath. \nDrawing from real-world experience deploying production agents across 120+ microservices\, this talk bypasses the basic tutorials and maps out the concrete stack that’s actually emerging: \n* **Tiered Memory & Context:** Why basic RAG isn’t enough\, and how agents need to manage short-term\, long-term\, and episodic memory. \n**The Observability Crisis:** You can’t `tail -f` an agent. We’ll look at tracing reasoning chains\, confidence signals\, and execution paths. \n**The Testing Gap:** How to unit test non-deterministic behavior and catch regressions before your users do. \nWhether you’re struggling with single vs. multi-agent orchestration or just trying to keep your agent from hallucinating its budget away\, this talk draws direct parallels to how we eventually fixed the microservices mess—and calls out what’s still painfully missing. \n**Speaker Bio**:\nUday Kanagala is a Principal Software Architect at Navan (formerly TripActions) with over 13 years of experience in the tech industry. He is a strong proponent of immutable infrastructure\, event-driven architectures\, and building highly scalable cloud systems. Throughout his career\, he has successfully helped organizations grow\, scale\, and maintain complex multi-repository infrastructures. In addition to his foundational work in cloud architecture\, Uday is actively engaged in the intersection of software engineering and Artificial Intelligence. His recent research and development focus on AI agent frameworks\, autonomous architectural governance\, and the practical implementation of AI-native enterprise systems. \n**Recent Publications**:\n[https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813233](https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813233)\n[https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813187](https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813187)\n[https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813195](https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813195) \n[https://twitter.com/udaybhanuprasad](https://twitter.com/udaybhanuprasad)\n[http://www.linkedin.com/in/udaybhanuprasad](http://www.linkedin.com/in/udaybhanuprasad) \n— \nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs\, wet labs\, and high power labs sized from 125-15\,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms\, conference rooms\, outdoor dining spaces\, and recreational spaces. \nAs a plug-and-play lab space\, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand\, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.\nhttps://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
URL:https://svec.org/event/building-the-production-infrastructure-your-agents-actually-need/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Building the Production Infrastructure Your Agents Actually Need
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid event: In-person\, Zoom \nIf you want to join discussion remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[https://acm-org.zoom.us/](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/93726127628?pwd=qUqkfAHTxEAaEmfQYAbZmZtlzjYOoz.1) will be provided before 7:00pm of the event date. RSVP to get the link. \nAGENDA\n6:30 pre-sign in to test and chat\n**7:00** SFBayACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 speaker presentation starts\n8:15 – 8:30 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion in person at VRP \n**Abstract:**\nRemember when everyone rushed to ship microservices without service discovery\, circuit breakers\, or tracing? AI agents are in that exact “wild west” phase right now. Everyone is building them; very few are thinking about the infrastructure underneath. \nDrawing from real-world experience deploying production agents across 120+ microservices\, this talk bypasses the basic tutorials and maps out the concrete stack that’s actually emerging: \n* **Tiered Memory & Context:** Why basic RAG isn’t enough\, and how agents need to manage short-term\, long-term\, and episodic memory. \n**The Observability Crisis:** You can’t `tail -f` an agent. We’ll look at tracing reasoning chains\, confidence signals\, and execution paths. \n**The Testing Gap:** How to unit test non-deterministic behavior and catch regressions before your users do. \nWhether you’re struggling with single vs. multi-agent orchestration or just trying to keep your agent from hallucinating its budget away\, this talk draws direct parallels to how we eventually fixed the microservices mess—and calls out what’s still painfully missing. \n**Speaker Bio**:\nUday Kanagala is a Principal Software Architect at Navan (formerly TripActions) with over 13 years of experience in the tech industry. He is a strong proponent of immutable infrastructure\, event-driven architectures\, and building highly scalable cloud systems. Throughout his career\, he has successfully helped organizations grow\, scale\, and maintain complex multi-repository infrastructures. In addition to his foundational work in cloud architecture\, Uday is actively engaged in the intersection of software engineering and Artificial Intelligence. His recent research and development focus on AI agent frameworks\, autonomous architectural governance\, and the practical implementation of AI-native enterprise systems. \n**Recent Publications**:\n[https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813233](https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813233)\n[https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813187](https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813187)\n[https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813195](https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813195) \n[https://twitter.com/udaybhanuprasad](https://twitter.com/udaybhanuprasad)\n[http://www.linkedin.com/in/udaybhanuprasad](http://www.linkedin.com/in/udaybhanuprasad) \n— \nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs\, wet labs\, and high power labs sized from 125-15\,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms\, conference rooms\, outdoor dining spaces\, and recreational spaces. \nAs a plug-and-play lab space\, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand\, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.\nhttps://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
URL:https://svec.org/event/building-the-production-infrastructure-your-agents-actually-need-2/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Priority Queue Became the Backbone of Meta's AI Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:Hybrid event: In-person\, Zoom and YouTube\nIf you want to join remotely\, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:\n[Zoom](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/92225957844?pwd=E1L50oEkTFvwai73PYfGoqsPdi9xIL.1) (updated 6:55 pm)\n[https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/96722167486?pwd=Z8KPqxueHqb9syVRxriwGujYGUXjnm.1](https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/96722167486?pwd=Z8KPqxueHqb9syVRxriwGujYGUXjnm.1)\nJoin via YouTube: \nAGENDA\n6:30 Door opens\, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)\n7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events\, introduce the speaker\n7:15 Speaker presents.\n8:30 – 8:45 finish\, depending on Q&A \nJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on: \n### **Abstract & Overview** \nAlmost every asynchronous action at Meta passes through a single system most people have never heard of. The Facebook Ordered Queueing Service (FOQS)\, a fully managed\, horizontally scalable priority queue\, moves close to a trillion items per day for 300+ engineering teams\, and it has become critical infrastructure for AI at Meta’s scale. Async LLM inference\, Llama serving\, GenAI image generation\, and AI compute demand control all ride on it.\nThis talk traces how a queue originally built to absorb massive backlogs and prioritize work across highly heterogeneous producers and consumers grew into the reliability layer beneath Meta’s AI stack. It is an impact story rather than a feature tour: how one system came to serve hundreds of teams without them stepping on each other\, how it keeps the most important work moving under enormous load\, and how it evolved from isolated regional deployments into a globally distributed service that delivers region-level disaster recovery in seconds with zero client-visible downtime. The finale looks at how that same queue now acts as a control plane for shaping AI compute demand. \n### Speaker biography: \nJasmit Kaur Saluja is a software engineer at Meta Platforms\, where she builds large-scale distributed systems powering products used by billions of people. She is the technical lead of the Facebook Ordered Queueing Service (FOQS)\, a globally distributed\, disaster-ready priority queue processing roughly one trillion items daily\, which backs Meta AI’s infrastructure at scale. She designed and scaled FOQS\, including its cross-region failover architecture\, co-presented the work at the Systems @Scale conference\, and it is featured on Meta’s Engineering Blog. Earlier\, I co-authored “vNFS: Maximizing NFS Performance with Compounds and Vectorized I/O\,” presented at USENIX FAST ’17. \nHere is her presentatio at Systems @Scale on making a distributed `priority queue` disaster ready:\n[https://atscaleconference.com/events/systems-scale-fall-2021/?tab=2&item=11](https://atscaleconference.com/events/systems-scale-fall-2021/?tab=2&item=11) \n[linkedin.com/in/jasmit-kaur-saluja](http://linkedin.com/in/jasmit-kaur-saluja) \n—\nValley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104\,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs\, wet labs\, and high power labs sized from 125-15\,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms\, conference rooms\, outdoor dining spaces\, and recreational spaces. \nAs a plug-and-play lab space\, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand\, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.\nhttps://www.valleyresearchpark.com/
URL:https://svec.org/event/a-priority-queue-became-the-backbone-of-metas-ai-infrastructure/
LOCATION:Valley Research Park\, 319 N Bernardo Ave\, Mountain View\, CA\, 94043\, United States
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