Matt Stephenson, a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Starburst Data, discussed how the company leveraged Pulumi to enhance its cloud infrastructure management during a presentation at PulumiUP 2023. Starburst, which operates a data lake analytics platform powered by Trino, faced challenges with manual scaling and potential service disruptions due to frequent infrastructure updates across its multi-cloud Kubernetes clusters. By adopting Pulumi and its Automation API, Starburst unified its software development and infrastructure management, significantly improving deployment speeds and reliability. Pulumi's support for Java and TypeScript allowed Starburst's engineers to write infrastructure code using familiar languages, fostering a cohesive development environment. The integration led to a threefold increase in deployment speed, enabling blue-green deployments with no customer downtime and streamlining CI/CD processes through a consistent deployment lifecycle using GitHub Actions. This approach also consolidated the management of over 50 Kubernetes clusters and various SaaS platforms under a single tool, enhancing efficiency and reducing complexity.