Dok Talks #108 - Postgres on Kubernetes Applied at Scale in Zalando // Álvaro Hernández & Alexander Kukushkin

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

Some of the topics that may or may not be discussed on this live talk could be:

- Other than Patroni and the operator, what else was needed to fully switch to Kubernetes?
- What is left, what is the future going to bring to the world of Kubernetes and Postgres operators?

Expect strong opinions, and facts. Live. Uncensored. Postgres. On. Kubernetes.

BIO

Álvaro is a passionate database and software developer. He founded and works as the Founder & CEO of OnGres (https://ongres.com). He has been dedicated to PostgreSQL and R&D in databases for two decades.

An open source advocate and developer at heart, Álvaro is a well-known member of the PostgreSQL Community, to which he has contributed founding the non-profit Fundación PostgreSQL (https://postgresql.fund) and the Spanish PostgreSQL User Group.

You can find him frequently speaking at PostgreSQL, database, cloud, and Java conferences. Every year, Álvaro travels approximately three-four times around the globe—in 2020 (or now more likely 2021 due to COVID-19), he will hit the milestone of having delivered 100 tech talks.

AWS Data Hero (2019).
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During his professional career, Alexander touched PostgreSQL from all possible sides: as a Web Developer, as System Administrator, and as a Database Engineer now. Five years ago he started working on Patroni project and achieved quite a big success with it. Nowadays Patroni is used in the heart of PostgreSQL-as-a-Service on Kubernetes at Zalando to run 1000+ PostgreSQL HA clusters. Besides that, Alexander periodically reports bugs and contributes patches to PostgreSQL and some other open-source projects (usually Postgres related).