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ALT White text on a black background with photos of a TPU and a rocket orbiting Earth. The text reads: “Meet Project Suncatcher, our moonshot to test whether we can host AI infrastructure in space.”
ALT An image showing circuit boards, overlaid with text that reads: “We partnered with Planet to send a prototype satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit. We’ll be looking to see how well the TPUs withstand the harsh conditions of space to assess whether we can eventually host machine learning in orbit.”
ALT 9 days to go until SysConf 2026.
ALT “Performance Engineering Beyond Dashboards” is the title of Muutassim Mukhtar’s talk at SysConf 2026.
ALT Muutassim is a Senior Reliability Engineer at MTN. He has over 5+ years of experience building reliability into products as an SRE and DevOps engineer. He is passionate about infrastructure and performance.
ALT Peculiar Erhisohwode is a founding engineer at Chowdeck. “Mapping Deliverability: How We Rebuilt Chowdeck's Delivery Coverage with Polygons.” is the title of her talk at SysConf 2026.
ALT Peculiar is a software engineer with a background in backend engineering and distributed systems. She is a founding engineer at Chowdeck, one of Africa’s biggest startups, where she joined as the second backend engineer and first female software engineer. She designed, built, shipped, and owned end-to-end much of the delivery infrastructure that still runs the company today, including the polygon system this talk is about.
ALT 10 days until SysConf 2026!
ALT “Performance Engineering Beyond Dashboards” is the title of Muutassim Mukhtar’s talk at SysConf 2026.
ALT Muutassim is a Senior Reliability Engineer at MTN. He has over 5+ years of experience building reliability into products as an SRE and DevOps engineer. He is passionate about infrastructure and performance.
ALT “From Local to Cloud: How Microsandbox's Init System Powers Execution” is the title of Toks’ talk at SysConf 2026.
ALT Tochukwu "Toks" Nkemdilim is the CTO and co-founder of Microsandbox (YC F26), an open-source microVM runtime for securely running AI agents and untrusted code, locally, in the Cloud, or on private infrastructure. He works hands-on across the stack, from the microVM runtime and its networking layer all the way up to the cloud platform. Before Microsandbox, he was a systems engineer at Cloudflare.
ALT “Distributed LLM Inference From First Principles: When One GPU Isn’t Enough” is the title of Festus Owumi’s talk at SysConf 2026.
ALT Festus Owumi is an engineering leader and ML systems engineer building production distributed systems and cloud-native infrastructure, with a focus on LLM inference and GPU serving. He's contributed to NVIDIA Dynamo, an open-source inference framework.
