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Beyond Adoption: The Age of Operational Excellence
Written on November 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM, by melissa
The 2025 Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Report Is Here Five years ago, the idea of running data workloads on Kubernetes still raised eyebrows. Today, it’s the norm — and the…
Empowering developers w/ easy, scalable stream processing on K8s
Written on October 14, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Diogenese
In this Town Hall, Intuit shared insights on Numaflow, an open-source Kubernetes-native stream processing framework developed to address the challenges of real-time data analytics. The presentation highlighted how Numaflow enables…
Vitess: A cloud-native distributed system for scaling MySQL
Written on October 7, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Diogenese
In this DoK Talk, we learned about Vitess, a powerful database solution for deploying and managing large clusters of MySQL and Percona Server instances. The talk highlighted Vitess’s versatility across…
Running Batch Data Workloads in Kubernetes at Dish Network
Written on September 30, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Diogenese
This DoK Town Hall explored optimizing batch data processing at scale on Kubernetes, addressing the challenges of fast, reliable data processing in the face of exponential data growth. It showcased…
Women in Cloud Native / Airflow on K8s
Written on September 23, 2024 at 9:00 AM, by Diogenese
Women in Cloud Native was presented by Nancy Chauhan, Developer Advocate at LocalStack and founder of Women in Cloud Native. In this session, we heard about Nancy’s journey in cloud…
Anatomy of a DBaaS: Bringing self-serve databases to Kubernetes with open source
Written on September 16, 2024 at 4:07 PM, by Paul Au
This talk was an under-the-hood look at developing an open source DBaaS. We looked at the components that are used for its backend services, frontend, and the inner workings of…
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…