KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024: Full Schedule

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November 12-15
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11:00am MST

How We Scale a Distributed SQL Database to 1 PB - Sam Dillard, PingCAP

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

TiDB is a distributed SQL database that we built to solve the scalability problems of traditional SQL databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. Using TiDB, users do not need to shard their data across multiple MySQL or PostgreSQL database instances, nor do they need to sacrifice some key database features such as JOIN and transactions. Users only need to add storage nodes and computing nodes to the cluster as needed. However, we also encountered many scalability challenges when building TiKV - the stateful storage layer of TiDB. Challenges such as workload skew issues making it difficult to scale performance, management challenges of millions of dynamic data partitions, latency impact during scaling, interference between different workloads when consolidating multiple workloads into the same cluster, etc. In this talk, I will provide an in-depth look at these challenges and our solutions.

Speakers

Sam Dillard

Principle Engineer, PingCAP

Principal Engineer at PingCAP, TiKV maintainer and committer, RocksDB contributor, the author of "MariaDB Principles and Implementation". Mainly engaged in the design and development of cloud-native large-scale distributed storage systems, data platforms, 10+ years of experience in... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 11:00am - 11:35am MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

11:55am MST

Kubernetes on Multisites – A Story About Stateful App, Hybrid Clouds, and High Availability - Florian Coulombel, Dell Technologies & Jan Šafránek, Red Hat

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

The day has come! Kubernetes has won the hearts and minds of your leadership and entire organizations, and everyone wants to benefit. Projects are launched to migrate legacy apps, run proprietary systems, and even use virtual machines in your Kubernetes infrastructure! But wait a minute. VMs and good' ol RDBMS are not microservices developed with 12 factors in mind where data is either hosted on an external service or replicated by the application. How are we going to warranty the availability of these applications and systems? Do I need to do a backup of these things? What if my business is fragmented across edge, on-prem, and public clouds? Members from SIG Storage will guide you through the options to compose with, including the latest CSI features, Kubernetes architecture design, and even hardware solutions. We will evaluate the benefits to consider and the pitfalls to avoid when implementing stateful workloads in Kubernetes on multiple sites.

Speakers

Jan

Software Engineer, Red Hat

Jan is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat working on storage aspects of Kubernetes. He started developing Kubernetes more than 8 years ago, and is one of the founding members of SIG-Storage. He’s the author of PersistentVolume controller, dynamic provisioning and StorageClass... Read More →

Florian Coulombel

Senior Software Engineer, Dell Technologies

Father of 2, living in France. Nerd since 1996 when Quake alpha version leaked, Linux user since 2001, Kubernetes enthusiast since 2016, member of Kubernetes SIG Storage since 2023.

Friday November 15, 2024 11:55am - 12:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:00pm MST

Object Storage Is All You Need - Justin Cormack, Docker

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

When Jeff Bezos commissioned Amazon S3 he called it "malloc for the web"; since then many people have considered cloud object storage to be a weird kind of non Posix filesystem, but also a great backing store for websites or storing lots of data. Recently more and more applications are being built with object storage as the entire persistence layer. This started with analytics databases such as Snowflake and Databricks, and the open source Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg projects. More recently the use is spreading to even more applications, from observability to streaming data and more. In this talk we look at why it is becoming so popular, the benefits, downsides and performance characteristics, and how and when to use it effectively.

Speakers

Justin Cormack

CTO, Docker

Justin is the CTO of Docker, recently a member of the CNCF TOC, and has been working in the container ecosystem and in supply chain security for many years.

Friday November 15, 2024 2:00pm - 2:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm MST

Object, Block, or File Storage? Choosing the Right Cloud Storage to Integrate Into Kubernetes - Mitch Becker & Tom McDonald, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

This presentation helps simplify the container storage landscape to assist K8s users make educated cloud storage choices based on their workload requirements and data strategy. You already know K8s is a an open-source platform that orchestrates containerized applications. But what type of cloud storage should one deploy for stateless and stateful applications to ensure persistent data across various operational scenarios? Different storage types cater to specific use cases within K8s environments. Organizations often require persistent storage to run K8s for stateful use cases such as Large-Scale Application Deployment, High-Performance Computing (HPC), AI/ML, Microservices Management, CI/CD Pipelines, and Big Data Processing. Because Block, File, and Object Storage are used in varying ways for containerized workloads, this talk will explain use cases for each storage type and educate the attendees so their selection of storage supports their applications and overall data strategy.

Speakers

Tom McDonald

Sr. Storage Specialist SA, AWS

Tom McDonald is a Senior Workload Storage Specialist at AWS. Starting with an Atari 400 and re-programming tapes, Tom began a long interest in increasing performance on any storage service. With 20 years of experience in the Upstream Energy domain, file systems and High-Performance... Read More →

Mitch Becker

Sr. Storage Specialist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Accomplished cloud professional transforming and modernizing IT environments: Cloud Computing, Cloud Storage, HPC, AI, Containers, DevOps, & Cloud Adoption/Migration/Transformation. • CNCF Storage Technical Advisory Group Member • AWS --- Certified Cloud Practitioner, Industry... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Intermediate

2:55pm MST

OpenSearch: Navigating Innovation and Community Collaboration for 2025 and Beyond - Anandhi Bumstead & Anirudha Jadhav, Amazon Web Services

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

The open source OpenSearch Project guides its development with a community-driven product roadmap that must anticipate the near- and long-term future of search, observability, and generative AI. As more OpenSearch users deploy the software suite for observability applications across a range of cloud infrastructures, the project roadmap must account for robust integrations with open telemetry frameworks and standards while maintaining stable, flexible operational capabilities. This session will present development priorities and strategic goals for the project’s technology stack and share insights into how the project continues to streamline its roadmap to foster community contributions.

Speakers

Anandhi Bumstead

Amazon

Anandhi Bumstead, director of engineering at OpenSearch within Amazon Web Services, brings nearly three decades of experience in distributed systems and open-source software. With a background in cloud computing, Anandhi made significant contributions during her tenure at Microsoft... Read More →

Anirudha Jadhav

Amazon

Anirudha Jadhav, an expert in distributed database systems, data analytics, and search technologies, currently leads development of insight engines and visualization platforms at Amazon Web Services (AWS) OpenSearch as Engineering Manager. His significant contributions to big data... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 2:55pm - 3:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 2 | 255 BC

Data Processing + Storage

4:00pm MST

Privacy in the Age of Big Compute - Sal Kimmich, Confidential Computing Consortium, Linux Foundation

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

In the age of big compute, the definition of privacy has transformed as re-identification from anonymized datasets has become easier. This session explores the challenges and solutions in navigating privacy concerns in high-dimensional data environments. Attendees will learn about the risks of re-identification, the importance of unicity in data sets, and how Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and Confidential Computing can mitigate these risks. Discover how these advancements can help protect sensitive data, ensure compliance, and foster a more secure data ecosystem in cloud-native environments.

Speakers

Sal Kimmich

Technical Community Architect, Confidential Computing Consortium, Linux Foundation

Sal is an advocate for open source, passionate about helping engineers, ethical hackers, and digital enthusiasts navigate modern software development. With over a decade of experience building cloud-native machine learning pipelines in healthcare and tech for good sectors, Sal now... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 4:00pm - 4:35pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Any

4:55pm MST

Goodbye Etcd! Running Kubernetes on Distributed PostgreSQL - Denis Magda, Yugabyte

Friday November 15, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST

Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Kubernetes once favored Etcd as a database for all cluster data. Back then, relational databases lacked the availability and scalability characteristics required by Kubernetes. However, as Etcd encountered challenges with various Kubernetes workloads, relational databases continued to evolve. This session is a practical guide for deploying fault-tolerant and scalable Kubernetes clusters on distributed PostgreSQL. We’ll begin with Kine, which integrates into the Kubernetes architecture, enabling relational databases for cluster metadata management. Then, we’ll use Kine to deploy Kubernetes on a single-server PostgreSQL instance. After that, we’ll migrate to a multi-node PostgreSQL instance, allowing Kubernetes to tolerate zone and region outages and scale to thousands of nodes on demand.

Speakers

Denis Magda

Head of DevRel, Yugabyte

Denis started his software engineering career at Sun Microsystems and Oracle, where he built JVM/JDK and led one of the Java development groups. After learning Java from the inside, he joined the world of distributed systems and databases, where he has remained ever since. His experience... Read More →

Friday November 15, 2024 4:55pm - 5:30pm MST
Salt Palace | Level 1 | Grand Ballroom GI

Data Processing + Storage

Content Experience Level Any