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Explore how infrastructure engineering's pursuit of predictability through deterministic systems and configuration management tools often fails to align with the unpredictable nature of modern workloads in this 24-minute conference talk. Examine the fundamental disconnect between traditional infrastructure approaches that prioritize state specification, consistent enforcement, and drift elimination versus the dynamic requirements of contemporary applications. Learn about the challenges that arise when deterministic infrastructure meets non-deterministic workload behaviors, and discover insights into bridging this gap between infrastructure predictability and workload reality. Gain perspective on rethinking infrastructure design principles to better accommodate the inherent unpredictability of modern distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
