Catch Me If You Can - Hunting Misconfigurations Before They Break Production

Learn how to build a proactive "drift radar system" that detects and prevents misconfigurations, infrastructure drift, and application bugs before they reach production environments in this 27-minute conference talk from SREcon25 EMEA. Discover practical implementation strategies using control loops, runtime policy enforcement, and CI/CD sensors to create automated safeguards against reliability failures. Explore real-world case studies and platform-agnostic techniques that demonstrate how to catch problematic YAML configurations, infrastructure changes, and sneaky application issues during development phases. Gain actionable insights for implementing scalable resilience practices that benefit developers, site reliability engineers, and platform engineers working to prevent the classic "it worked on my machine" production disasters through systematic drift detection and prevention mechanisms.