THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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Manu Srivastava

Manu Srivastava

TITLE:Engineering Manager

COMPANY:Temporal

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Manu has over sixteen years of experience building out a variety of Cloud Services at both Microsoft and Temporal. He is currently the manager of the Cloud Growth engineering team at Temporal.

TALK

Lessons Learned Using Temporal to Run Temporal Cloud

ABSTRACT

This talk shares practical lessons from building and scaling Temporal Cloud’s control plane on Temporal itself. Drawing from our experience operating a production-critical system that now handles billions of billable actions per month, we will explore how our architecture evolved over 5+ years as we ran into challenges around execution patterns, reliability, security, cross-namespace orchestration, and developer experience. Along the way, we will highlight the tradeoffs behind key design decisions, what broke as we grew, and the tooling and platform improvements that helped us operate more safely and effectively at scale.