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Announcing Lori Lorusso as Co-Chair for the Data on Kubernetes SIG
Written on August 5, 2024 at 11:42 AM, by Paul Au
We are thrilled to announce that Lori Lorusso, Head of Community at Percona, has been appointed as co-chair for the Data on Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG). This appointment marks…
Released From the Cage: Apache Kafka Without Its ZooKeeper
Written on August 5, 2024 at 10:00 AM, by Paul Au
For years, Apache Kafka relied on Apache ZooKeeper for maintaining its metadata and coordination. But that is coming to an end. After a lot of work in the Apache Kafka…
Lightning Talk: Enabling Hot Restart of Stateful Applications Including GPU-Accelerate AI/ML Workloads
Written on July 31, 2024 at 10:00 AM, by Paul Au
This talk both described and demonstrated how stateful applications, including GPU-accelerated AI/ML workflows, can be automatically hot restarted after pod kill/eviction events that are augmented by transparent memory-snapshotting techniques. Applications…
Lessons Learned from Building a Database Operator
Written on July 25, 2024 at 2:15 PM, by Paul Au
In this talk, we shared our journey in developing Kubernetes Operators to run MongoDB in critical production Kubernetes environments. This presentation offered a deep dive into the lessons learned from…
Cloud-Native Dataspaces: Experiences from the German Research Data Ecosystem
Written on July 8, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Paul Au
Data on Kubernetes and stateful applications have gained remarkable adoption across the community. But why stop there? Kubernetes and cloud-native tools can provide compelling core technologies for building sophisticated data…
Lightning Talk: My Database Runs on Kubernetes. What’s Next? Data Platforms!
Written on July 3, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Paul Au
There’s not much doubt that databases now run well on Kubernetes: operators have matured, storage management works, and there are lots of success stories. What do you do now? Build…
Lightning Talk: Ditching Data Pipelines: why treating Data as Assets is the best thing you can do
Written on July 1, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Paul Au
Efficient data handling traditionally involves constructing robust pipelines to process information from diverse sources. However, recent open-source tools question this approach and propose an alternative: rather than detailing data processing…
From Zero to Hero: Scaling Postgres in Kubernetes Using the Power of CloudNativePG
Written on June 27, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Paul Au
Unleash PostgreSQL’s potential in Kubernetes with CloudNativePG, a community-driven control plane reshaping the database landscape. Join a dedicated CloudNativePG maintainer and active Postgres contributor on a captivating journey through managing…
How to Create Your Own Metadata-Driven ML Platform from Scratch
Written on June 4, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Paul Au
This talk demonstrated integrating a data lakehouse with a metadata-driven orchestration engine, utilizing open-source tools like Presto and Kubeflow. Other key learnings included: Learn about Presto and how it works…
