FoundationDB Meetup [Online]

Join us for the first fully Virtual FoundationDB Meetup with guest speakers from Germany and India!
This is a monthly meetup series in Adobe's office in San Jose. We will feature an interesting roster of speakers who use or work on FoundationDB.

Agenda:

• Ice Breakers - 10 mins
• Talk: FoundationDB on Kubernetes - 45 mins
• Talk: FoundationDB Infrastructure Excellence - 20 mins

Talk Title: FoundationDB on Kubernetes
Speaker: Johannes Scheuermann (Site Reliability Engineer, Apple)
Speaker Bio:
With over a decade of experience, Johannes started his journey in the Kubernetes eco-system in early 2015 by on-boarding projects and applications onto Kubernetes. Since 2020, Johannes works as an SRE for FoundationDB at Apple and is leading the development of the open source FoundationDB operator.
Talk Summary:
In this talk, Johannes covers the design of the FoundationDB operator on Kubernetes, emphasizing the approaches to overcome limitations in Kubernetes and highlights implementation choices to address unique aspects of the FoundationDB Operator. He will outline the different options to run an highly available FoundationDB Cluster on Kubernetes. Additionally, Johannes will cover the challenges with running stateful services at scale on Kubernetes and different ways it can be managed. The talk concludes with an outlook on future design changes and planned features for the FoundationDB operator.

Talk Title: FoundationDB Infrastructure Excellence
Speaker: Aakash Setia (Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe) and Deekshit Kumar GVD (Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe)
Speaker Bio:
Aakash has over 10 years of experience in building reliable, scalable, and secure systems. Currently at Adobe for the past 3+ years, he has focused on infrastructure setup for multi-cloud environment and streamlining FoundationDB provisioning to enhance efficiency and usability.

Deekshit is experienced in multi-cloud providers like AWS, Azure and GCP, specializing in provisioning distributed databases such as Elasticsearch, Couchbase, Redis, Cassandra, Druid. For the past 2+ years at Adobe, he has focused on ensuring the operational excellence of FoundationDB in Azure and AWS environments
Talk Summary:
This talk will delve into some high-level concepts for provisioning and configuration of FoundationDB database. They will explore how to achieve operational readiness for FDB, focusing on essential aspects like key metrics for monitoring, logging and debugging in production environments. Additionally, they will focus on key learnings such as perpetual storage wiggle and usage of open source utilities, showcasing how they optimize and streamline production FDB deployments.

Disclaimer - The meeting will be streamed, recorded, and uploaded to YouTube or other online streaming sites used by this group.