Infrastructure automation often works well—until it doesn’t. In distributed systems, partial failures and intermittent outages can derail even the most carefully written automation. In this talk, Cornelia Davis, a seasoned technologist with deep expertise in platform engineering, demonstrates how Temporal enables infrastructure teams to build fault-tolerant IAC pipelines by abstracting away complex failure handling.
Temporal is an open source platform designed for durable execution across distributed environments. It ensures that once a workflow is started, it will run to completion, even in the face of network disruptions, human approval steps, or downstream instability. Davis will explore how Temporal supports a variety of programming languages—including Go, Java, TypeScript, Python, and others—making it accessible to teams across tech stacks.
The speaker will also share how organizations like HashiCorp are using Temporal for infrastructure automation and why this approach is quickly becoming a go-to solution for building resilient, maintainable IAC systems.