Data on Kubernetes Community

My experience in this contemporary technology journey of the last 4 years, fears, mistakes, IT paradigms, and agile methodologies impact my goals.

I love working with technology. I am a person who learns much more by doing and teaching.

Talk about religion and politics

Kubernetes became the standard for micro services architectures. But what about handling massive and scalable data management on top of it? Is it possible and what does it mean for operations? Cassandra has been adopted widely and accepted globally as the most scalable and reliable database. Now it adds ease of use by offering a Kubernetes native plug and play solution for enterprise use!

Michel has been specializing in NoSQL technologies and Distributed Data Management for about 10 years. Working with enterprise organizations like ABN AMRO, Rabobank, ING, Booking.com and more, he deployed NoSQL technologies into business critical applications.

Arie is a Cloud Solutions Engineer with over 10 years of experience. He has been a team leader and helped previous companies reduce their cloud costs through optimization strategies.

Jeffry Molanus is CTO of MayaData, the creator of the OpenEBS and Litmus Chaos projects and a top 5 contributor overall to Cloud Native Computing Foundation projects. Jeffry’s experience includes technical leadership positions at Cloudian and Nexenta Systems. He has been a frequent speaker about the underpinnings of emerging trends at open source conferences such as FOSDEM and storage technology events such as the storage developer conference and elsewhere.

The time is ready for Kubernetes to support gigantic Data Management workloads and Cassandra now makes it easy to deploy and operate!

https://go.dok.community/slack

Even though microservices are becoming a pattern, we still see a lot of "monolithical" deploys and manual reactive actions. This blocks the ability to achieve maximum velocity in your release. We can leverage data and smart use of traffic-shaping to achieve a higher release velocity AND quality.

Bio…

Olaf has over 20 years of experience in the internet industry in technical, architectural and IT management roles. With a background as a software developer, enterprise/solution architect, and technical consultant, Olaf is in a good position to align business challenges with technical innovations and organisational processes. In his former life, he was helping teams designing, building and releasing innovative online and e-commerce platforms for digital enterprises. In his role of CTO of Vamp.io he is focusing on realising the vision to bring "controlled GoLive" and advanced release automation to the next level.

Get an understanding on how we can use cloudnative traffic-shaping mechanisms and all kinds of data sources to increase the velocity and quality of releasing software.

Is deploying Postgres in Kubernetes just repackaging it into a container? Can’t Postgres leverage the wide range of Cloud-Native software and integrate well with K8s? Join this journey that will cover and demonstrate, with demos running on StackGres:

The goal of this talk is to share with the Community all the knowledge and best practices

Álvaro is a passionate database and software developer. He founded and works as the Founder & CEO of OnGres (https://ongres.com). He has been dedicated to PostgreSQL and R&D in databases for two decades.

An open source advocate and developer at heart, Álvaro is a well-known member of the PostgreSQL Community, to which he has contributed founding the non-profit Fundación PostgreSQL (https://postgresql.fund) and the Spanish PostgreSQL User Group.

You can find him frequently speaking at PostgreSQL, database, cloud, and Java conferences. Every year, Álvaro travels approximately three-four times around the globe—in 2020 (or now more likely 2021 due to COVID-19), he will hit the milestone of having delivered 100 tech talks.

AWS Data Hero (2019).

https://go.dok.community/slack 

We will discuss how we can implement an efficient solution to overscale a Kubernetes cluster and therefore keep always enough room in the cluster for  applications to grow in number of replicas.

Presenter: Bart Farrell

Cockroach Labs has built a database architected from the ground up to be distributed. It is a perfect fit for the cloud and Kubernetes as it naturally scales and survives without manual interaction. The unique architecture of CockroachDB delivers some key innovations that may not only provide value for your applications but might also give you insight into the challenges/solutions in distributed systems.

In this session, we will deliver a deep-dive exploration into the internals of the database, exploring the following, and more:

Jim has been a product marketer for almost twenty years and before that he coded professionally in Smalltalk, C++ and Java. He still codes and likes to dive deep into tech so that he can help translate complex topicsinto consumable forms.

Over the course of his career he has focused on emerging tech and has been directly involved in creating six categories. He prides himself as an advocate of the developer and a rabid open source software promoter.

His list of startups that he’s helped build include Servgate, Vontu (acquired), Initiate Sytems (acquired), Talend (IPO), Hortonworks (IPO), EverString (acquired), CoreOS (acquired) and is currently the VP of a Product Marketing at pre-IPO, Cockroach Labs.

We will dive deep into the architecture of the database and explicitly cover the following areas:

For our 23rd installation of the Data on K8s community meetup, we will be talking with Ariel Munafo who is a CNCF ambassador and the founder of EuropeClouds (among many other things), Arie Van den Bos Senior Systems Engineer on Cloud Systems at Kurago, and Jake Page who is a DevOps and Cloud Native Enthusiast.

Ariel Munafo is a very busy human being. He is a Founder, Investor, Board Member, Cloud Computing Evangelist, CNCF Ambassador, Community Builder, Personal Advisor to CIOs & CTOs and still a Geek!

Jake Page is a CISCO/AWS/Microsoft certified DevOps and Cloud Native Enthusiast living in Florianópolis Brazil. He wants to be involved in anything that has to do with growth, efficiency, and developing solutions that make people ask themselves, "What did I do before this existed?".

Arie van den Bos is a Cloud Solutions Engineer with over 10 years of experience. He has been a team leader and helped previous companies reduce their cloud costs through optimization strategies.

Sonia Singla - Developer advocate, Embark Studios

In this talk, I would like to uncover our newly announced Vitess Operator for Kubernetes. This talk demonstrates the sample implementation of Vitess in Kubernetes topology. I also explore common DBA tasks by demonstrating how they are handled in the Vitess ecosystem. Vitess, out of the box, comes with a lot of tools and utilities that one has to either incorporate or develop to manage MySQL topology. Let’s take a look at the capabilities of Vitess in these areas and demonstrate how they are performed under the operator realm.

Alkin Tezuysal has extensive experience in enterprise relational databases, working in various sectors for large corporations. With more than 20 years of industry experience, he has acquired skills for managing large projects from the ground up to production. For the past decade, he's been focused on e-commerce, SaaS, and MySQL technologies.

Alkin has managed and architected database topologies for high volume sites at eBay Intl. He has several years of experience in 24X7 support and operational tasks, as well as improving database systems for major companies. He has led global operations teams on Tier 1/2/3 support for MySQL customers.

In late 2020, he joined PlanetScale's expert engineering team over Vitess.

Data handling is one of the hardests things in Kubernetes. This talk will be an informal conversation about things (relateded to data management) Eduard found helping customers to embrace Kubernetes.

Eduard Tomàs is a passionate developer since he was a child. He started programming with a Spectrum 48 and here still he is!

Now he is focused on helping customers to embrace the cloud. Due to that, he is working in cloud-ready, cloud-native technologies and distributed architectures.