Kafka is an important part of Etsy’s data ecosystem, moving data that powers a number of things like analytics, A/B testing, and search indexing. Etsy runs its Kafka cluster on Kubernetes and in 2022 the data team made an effort to ensure that the cluster could withstand a GCP zonal outage. This created an interesting opportunity for the team to change the way they approached rolling out changes to the Kafka brokers. They were able to cut the time for these updates from 7 hours to a little over 2. In this talk, Kamya discusses the changes made to add zonal resiliency to the Kafka cluster that ..read more

For the second time, the Data on Kubernetes Community’s DoK Day event was hosted by the CNCF as a co-located event at KubeCon Europe 2024 in Paris, France – and it was our biggest and most well attended event yet! The city of lights was the cloud native hub for four days, hosting over 12,000 people from across the world. I was one of those people that made the journey from North America, traveling 16 hours to make my way from Sacramento to Paris. DoK Day and KubeCon took place at the expansive Paris Expo Porte de Versailles at the far southern edges of the 15th arrondissement. I arrived early ..read more

The Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) is the global home for thousands of end users sharing best practices for running data workloads on Kubernetes including 4k Slack users, nearly 3k Meetup followers and 7k newsletter subscribers. We deliver a range of community programs to support practitioners on their DoK journey including meetups, conferences, end user roundtables, research reports, an ambassador program, and other activities to help practitioners connect and learn. Our work would not be possible without the support of sponsors who enable us to bring you these programs while sharing the ..read more

A summary of our discussion and presentations during our first-ever DoK Ecosystem Day. DoK is a vendor-neutral space, but we also know organizations rely on vendors for different parts of their stack. In January, the Data on Kubernetes Community gave vendors an opportunity to be shameless for its inaugural Ecosystem Day event! Each vendor was given 5 minutes to present a lightning talk. The following provides a brief overview, video, and transcript of the event.  Ecosystem Day Presented by:  Cindy Ho, Senior Technical Product Manager,  Dell Technologies Robert Hodges, CEO, Alt ..read more

A summary of our discussion and presentation during our first DoK Talk in January.  Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Talks are virtual events presented by Data on Kubernetes Community members sharing best practices, use cases, and other practical advice to help end users on their DoK journey. The following provides a brief overview, video, and transcript of the DoKC Talk that was held in January 2024.  Data Compliance Across Multiple Regions with KubeSlice Presented by:  Prasad Dorbala, Chief Product Officer, Avesha Olyvia Rakshit, VP Marketing and Product UX, Avesha In this DoK talk ..read more

A summary of our discussion during our DoKC Town Hall held in September.  Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) Town Halls allow our community to meet one another, share end user journey stories, discuss DoK-related projects and technologies, and learn more about community events and ways to participate. The following provides a brief overview, video and transcript for the DoKC Town Hall that was held September 2023.  Rook - Helping the Kubernetes Storage Community Thrive Presented by: Travis Nielsen, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM  Rook is an open source cloud-native storage ..read more

A summary of our discussion during our DoKC Town Hall held in August.  Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) Town Halls allow our community to meet one another, share end user journey stories, discuss DoK-related projects and technologies, and learn more about community events and ways to participate. The following provides a brief overview of the Town Hall held on August 17, 2023 which featured Brian Chambers, Chick-fil-A's Chief Architect, who shared insights into how the company strategically harnessed Kubernetes to tackle intricate challenges posed by high sales volumes and the need fo ..read more

A summary of our discussion during our DoKC Town Hall held in July Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) Town Halls allow our community to meet one another, share end user journey stories, discuss DoK-related projects and technologies, and learn more about community events and ways to participate. The following provides a brief overview of the Town Hall held on July 20, 2023, including the full video and transcript.  Implementing Data & Databases on K8s within the Dutch Government Presented by Sebastiaan Mannem, Director at Mannem Solutions Sebastiaan likes to combine databases with ou ..read more

A summary of our discussion during our DoKC Town Hall held in June.  Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) Town Halls allow our community to meet one another, share end user journey stories, discuss DoK-related projects and technologies, and learn more about community events and ways to participate. On June 15, our Town Hall focused on two topics: 1) finding a K8s operator to protect your data and 2) migrating data pipelines into a K8s environment. Finding a Kubernetes Operator That Protects Your Data Presented by: Robert Hodges, CEO, Altinity In our first session, Robert highlighted the i ..read more

On May 24, Akshay Ram and Michelle Au from Google led the DoK Operator Roundtable, representing both the Kubernetes project and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) as a managed Kubernetes provider. DoK roundtables unite operator developers for an informal deep dive into challenges that come up when writing operators and using them in production. The goal of the roundtable was to explore challenges projects are facing when writing operators, and to find opportunities where the Kubernetes project could address those gaps.  About 10 developers attended the roundtable, representing various operat ..read more