DoKC Town Hall #2 - PayItGov & Altinity

We are the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC), where end users go to share best practices for running data workloads on Kubernetes.

We're excited to host the second DoKC Town Hall virtual event in June 2023! This is a growing event to bring the community together to meet each other, share end-user journey stories, DoK-related projects and technologies, and keep you up-to-date on community events and ways to participate. Meetings will be held on the third Thursday of each month at 9am PT.

AGENDA

[9:00 AM]
Welcome and Community Updates
*Presented by Melissa Logan, DoKC Director and Founder, Constantia.io*

[9:15 AM]
Repel Boarders! How to find a Kubernetes operator that really protects your data
Presented by Robert Hodges, Altinity
Operators are a godsend for managing data in Kubernetes. But how about protecting it? We'll explore security threats to cloud native databases and show what protection you should look for in operators. Finally we'll introduce a new Data on Kubernetes Community project to develop security standards for database operators in Kubernetes.

[9:35 AM]
Unsticking Ourselves from Glue: Migrating PayIt’s Data Pipelines to Argo Workflows and Hera
Presented by Matt Menzenski, Senior Software Engineering Manager, Payitgov

At PayIt, we’ve been deploying applications to Kubernetes almost since the beginning of the company. Our data workloads, however, have run instead in AWS Glue. This has worked well enough for the reporting use cases that have been the main focus of this team historically. However, at the beginning of 2022, the PayIt data team began building out a new data platform, and in the process, ran into a number of challenges with Glue. In this talk, I will share the difficulties that we encountered with building, deploying, and orchestrating ETL pipelines in AWS Glue, our decision process for moving those workloads into Kubernetes, and the ELT architecture that we’ve arrived at today.

[9:55 AM]
DoK Quiz and T-Shirt Giveaway!
This will test your knowledge of the Data on Kubernetes Community and DoK research reports. One winner will receive our famous RUN DOK t-shirt!