The State Of State On k8s- what's your status?

For our 18th installation of the data on k8s community meetup, we will be talking with Hashicorp Developer Advocates Rosemary Wang and Jacquie Grindrod, Red Hat Principal Software Engineer Lili Cosic, and Cloud Code Labs Co-founder Tomasz Chowela about all things stateful (and stateless).

// Register here:
https://go.dok.community/register

// Abstract:
Stateful vs stateless? We will stately be stating our statutes regarding the status of the state of statefulness and statelessness on k8s- oh yea!

In the DoK Community, one of the main topics that we see is regarding the dilemma "To state or not to state, that is the question". To go deeper on this we're bringing on 3 experts from 3 different countries to tell us what state state (intentionally doubled) is in!

// Bio:
Rosemary Wang works to bridge the technical and cultural barriers between infrastructure engineers and application developers.

She has a fascination for solving intractable problems with code, whether it be helping an infrastructure engineer learn to code or an application developer troubleshoot infrastructure failures. She also interfaces with vendors, clients, startups, and open source projects to find creative software solutions for infrastructure.

When she is not drawing on whiteboards, Rosemary valiantly attempts to hack stacks of various infrastructure systems on her laptop while watering her houseplants.

Jacquie Grindrod is a developer advocate for HashiCorp with a focus on delivery and orchestration, where she’s able to apply her passion for solving problems with a holistic approach by bridging the gaps between teams and systems. In 2019, Jacquie was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 30 Under 30 Developers and has spoken at conferences including DevOpsDays Toronto and Grace Hopper Celebration.

Lili Cosic is a Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, working on OpenShift monitoring. She is also a kube-state-metrics, prometheus-operator and kube-prometheus project maintainer. Previously she worked at Weaveworks on the Weave cloud integration with Kubernetes and before that, she found her passion for Kubernetes operators at Kinvolk creating first operators. In her free time, Lili enjoys experimenting with Kubernetes, cooking and distributed systems.

Tomasz Cholewa is the co-founder of Cloud Code Labs and he believes that good applications deserve even better environments where they can spread their wings and it's his job to help you create them. To achieve it he uses cloud and containers, but mostly he listens carefully to understand and use the right mix of proper technology and processes around it. His field of expertise is public cloud (AWS), containers and their orchestration engines - OpenShift and Kubernetes.

// Final thoughts
This will be a Fireside chat all audience can participate and ask questions, and you can also join the conversation beforehand in our slack group: https://go.dok.community/slack

You can also check out some of our old meetups on youtube here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnXJbHQ89R2uSfKsqQwGvQ