Clint Byrum, HashiCorp, an IBM Company, and Chris Jones, Google
Whether you're wrestling with the eternal "buy vs. build" debate, fighting configuration drift, or figuring out how to scale without setting money on fire, there's a seat for you here. This session is a loose, open gathering with facilitators, but the agenda is ultimately up to you. Whether you want to talk about wrangling Kubernetes, the depths of networking, or anything in between, this session is designed to be an engaging, community conversation across multiple tables with space to cover the full spectrum of infrastructure challenges. Bring your topic or question of choice and pull up a chair!
Clint Byrum is a Staff SRE at IBM, working on the reliability and performance of HashiCorp Terraform, IBM's cloud offering for running Terraform. Clint has decades of experience in operations, open source, and software engineering, including working as a core developer on Ubuntu and OpenStack. More recently Clint has been a full-time reliability engineer, leading efforts to stabilize and scale systems inside GoDaddy, Spotify, and HashiCorp, with a particular focus on Resilience and Learning from Incidents. Clint co-hosts a podcast about Resilience in Software called "This is Fine!" with Colette Alexander.
Chris Jones helps make Google Maps more reliable. Based in San Francisco, he's been an SRE for several of Google's systems, including App Engine, and was an editor of the Google SRE Book (2016). He's also been the technical lead for Google Cloud Platform's privacy engineering team and is a licensed professional engineer.
author = {Clint Byrum and Chris Jones},
title = {Infrastructure Management},
year = {2026},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}