Name: Taming the Beast: Advanced Resource Management With Kubernetes - Lucy Sweet, Uber & Dawn Chen, Google
Start: 2025-04-04T15:15:00+0100
End: 2025-04-04T15:45:00+0100

In-person
1-4 April 2025
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Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST

Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Are you struggling to optimize resource utilization for demanding workloads like databases?

Kubernetes 1.30 to 1.32 introduced a list of powerful new features to help you tame resource-hungry applications and achieve peak cluster efficiency. In this session, Dawn Chen (Software Engineer at Google & Tech Lead SIG Node) and Lucy Sweet (Software Engineer at Uber) will guide you through the latest advancements in pod resource management, including in-place pod resizing, pod-level resource limits, and node swap memory.

Learn how to leverage these features to reduce infrastructure costs, improve application performance, and prevent resource contention in your clusters. Discover best practices for resource allocation, QoS configuration, and troubleshooting, and get a glimpse into the future of pod resource management in Kubernetes.

Speakers

Dawn Chen

Principal Software Engineer, Google

Dawn Chen is a principal software engineer at Google. Dawn has worked on Kubernetes and Google Container Engine (GKE) before the project was founded. She has been one of tech leads in both Kubernetes and GKE. Prior to Kubernetes, she was the one of the tech leads for Google internal... Read More →

Lucy Sweet

Senior Software Engineer, Uber

Lucy is a Senior Software Engineer at Uber Denmark who works on platform infrastructure

Friday April 4, 2025 15:15 - 15:45 BST
Level 1 | Hall Entrance N10 | Room F

Platform Engineering

Content Experience Level Intermediate

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025

Dawn Chen

Lucy Sweet

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