some of my talks

I love getting on stage to share thoughts on technology and help people.

2025

Intelligent infrastructure cloud: A fireside chat on automation, security, and AI-driven operations

A fireside chat on how HashiCorp's Infrastructure Cloud unifies automation and security lifecycle management across hybrid environments, and what the future looks like for AI-driven infrastructure operations.

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2024

HCP Waypoint: An internal developer platform made to empower platform teams

Learn how HCP Waypoint empowers developers to rapidly develop new applications using pre-built “golden patterns” & perform day-2 operations seamlessly at scale.

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2023

Scaling HashiCorp's Writing Culture with Internal Tooling

HashiCorp’s writing roots date back to the company’s earliest days when it was just the co-founders, Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar. As the company has grown, this critical part of decision-making has had to evolve. In this talk, we explore the challenges of scaling the writing culture from tens to 2000+ employees by developing an internal tool that provides a UX for authoring, reviewing, approving, discovering, and deprecating internal documents.

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2021

Scale Testing the Network Control Plane

HashiCorp scaled Consul to update ~170k service instances running on 10,000 nodes in under half a second. This talk explains the testbench and what we learned.

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2020

Collaborative application and infrastructure workflow using GitHub Actions and HashiCorp Terraform

Speed is an important success metric for modern development teams. As enterprises start to scale in multi-cloud environments, the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) process is no longer just a developer specific workflow, but a DevOps workflow where both development and operations coordinate their tasks to move forward rapidly. GitHub and HashiCorp are working closely to build an end-to-end DevOps workflow encompassing the entire application development lifecycle.

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2019

Taming Infrastructure Workflow at Scale

As more operations choices are added to your data center, whether through company acquisitions, a growing development team, or general technical debt, managing infrastructure complexity becomes a nightmare. Yet the end goal is still the same — safely deploy your application to your infrastructure.

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HCL: A human-friendly language for developers and operators

In 2018, HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) was second on GitHub’s list of fastest-growing languages. Anubhav Mishra explores the history behind the creation of HCL and explains what has made it a popular language of choice, used by tools like HashiCorp Terraform and GitHub Actions.

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Secrets Store CSI Driver - Bring Your Own Enterprise Secrets Store to K8s

So you are running your applications in Kubernetes, but you already have a solution for managing and storing all your application secrets. How do you tell Kubernetes to use the same source of truth for secrets? Meet Secrets Store CSI driver, a simple way to retrieve sensitive data from enterprise-grade external stores such as Azure Key Vault and HashiCorp Vault using volumes.

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Intro: Virtual Kubelet

Virtual Kubelet has most recently been accepted into the CNCF as a sandboxed project. In this session we will go through the benefits of the project and the landscape of providers that contribute to VK in the open.

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Scheduling Applications at Scale with Nomad

Scheduler frameworks enable reliable and repeatable application deploys. In this session, attendees will use Nomad, a single binary cluster scheduler, to build a multi-region, self-healing production environment that runs a diverse set of workloads.

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2018

Building a serverless continuous integration and delivery pipeline

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems are part and parcel of today’s software delivery pipelines. Anubhav Mishra explains how to use serverless computing to create a cost-effective and reliable CI/CD pipeline.

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Taming Infrastructure Workflow at Scale with Terraform

Today’s cloud infrastructure is really complex. What if you could truly make this infrastructure a black box? What if you could mutate this infrastructure safely and easily? See how to use Terraform efficiently across hundreds of developers leveraging infrastructure as code and Terraform modules.

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2017

Moving from Mesos to Kubernetes Without Anyone Noticing

At Hootsuite, we’ve been using Mesos and Marathon as our microservices platform for over two years but last year, we made the decision to bet on Kubernetes as its replacement. Eight months later, a small team of three operations engineers had migrated our first microservice from Mesos to Kubernetes. All without developers making any code changes.

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How Can You Harness the Power of Entrepreneurs in Your Company? Give Them a PaaS!

At Hootsuite we have been seeing hyper growth since 2013 with over 12 million users now. In order to support this growth we are also building a great engineering team, but that isn't enough. We had to work extra hard to make software delivery easy and fast for our developers.

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Taming Terraform Workflow Using Terraform Modules and Github

Today’s cloud infrastructure is really complex. What if you could truly make this infrastructure a black box? What if you could mutate this infrastructure safely and easily? See how to use Terraform efficiently across hundreds of developers while leveraging a simple Github workflow and Terraform modules.

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