Mahishasur’s boon made him invincible against any single god, so the devas pooled their shakti into one being: Durga.
Platform engineers know this demon. He shape-shifts: a vanishing latency spike, config drift nobody committed, a bottleneck three layers down.
Now he has a new form. He opens pull requests at 3 AM, holds a credential, and never sleeps.
AI agents are non-deterministic by design. You can’t lint them or unit-test them into safety, and no single control plane contains them.
So we do what the devas did: converge.

This talk maps Durga’s ten arms to ten platform capabilities for running agents in production, each with a lesson from serving 17,000 engineers and 470,000 repositories.
No single project contains the demon. Argo CD doesn’t, OPA doesn’t, SPIFFE doesn’t. Each ends exactly one failure class.
The platform is what you get when thousands of hands pool shakti into one pair.

Build it before the pull requests start arriving at 3 AM.

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