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Stateful Superpowers: Explore High Performance and Scaleable Stateful Workloads on K8s - Alex Chircop & Chris Milsted, Akamai
Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D
There is no such thing as a stateless application - All applications need to store state somewhere!

Stateful workloads like databases and key value stores are often deployed outside of K8s, missing out on all the benefits of declarative config, scaling, failover and automatic healing.

In this talk we show how running stateful workloads in K8s is not only performant and scalable but are also resilient, and can facilitate Disaster Recovery.

We will discuss the cloud native ecosystem and provide live demos of:
* Running a million RPS on a KV store with TiKV
* Running scalable, replicated and resilient Postgres databases with CloudNativePG
* Running analytics & ML on a distributed filesystem with CubeFS
… all in K8s, using K8s features to scale, failover and run day 2 operations. Working examples for the demos will be shared to enable the audience to run their own databases and stateful workloads in K8s.

Finally, we will end with a discussion of use cases and best practices.
Speakers
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Alex Chircop

Chief Architect, Akamai
Chief Architect at Akamai. Previously a founder and CTO of Ondat (formerly StorageOS), building software defined solutions for cloud native environments. Alex is also a co-chair of the CNCF Storage TAG. Before embarking on the startup adventure he spent over 25 years engineering infrastructure... Read More →
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Chris Milsted

Senior Product Architect, Akamai
Chris has been working with Kubernetes since pre 1.0 when it was the Beta for OpenShift version 3 at Red Hat. Since then he has moved, via VMware and Tanzu, to Akamai (via Ondat) as a Senior Product Architect, helping to design and deliver cloud scale technologies. Outside of work... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 11:15 - 11:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance S10 | Room D
  Data Processing + Storage

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