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Oct 8, 2026
Data on Kubernetes Community Transitions to Community-Led Stewardship
The Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community is entering a new chapter. Since 2020 it has been a global hub for practitioners running databases, streaming, analytics and AI data on Kubernetes. Constantia LLC is transferring the community’s assets and stewardship to the community itself, with Sergey Pronin acting as steward during the transition.
Nov 10, 2025
Beyond Adoption: The Age of Operational Excellence
The 2025 Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Report Is Here Five years ago, the idea of running data workloads on Kubernetes still raised eyebrows. Today, it’s the norm — and the question has changed from “Can we?” to “How do we do it best?”
Oct 25, 2024
CFP open for Data on Kubernetes Day at KubeCon EU 2025
We’re excited to announce that the Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community will once again host a co-located event at KubeCon EU 2025 in London. As the leading gathering for DoK practitioners and enthusiasts, DoK Day showcases cutting-edge innovations and fosters invaluable knowledge sharing within our vibrant community.
Oct 25, 2024
Vitess Joins Data on Kubernetes Community Collaborator Program
The Data on Kubernetes Community is excited to announce the addition of Vitess as its newest Community Collaborator. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system that helps scale MySQL databases horizontally through sharding while maintaining MySQL compatibility and handling connection pooling, query routing, and automated failover. It was originally developed by YouTube/Google to solve their MySQL scaling challenges, and it has become particularly well-suited for Kubernetes environments because it was designed to run in containerized environments
Oct 14, 2024
Empowering developers w/ easy, scalable stream processing on K8s
In this Town Hall, Intuit shared insights on Numaflow, an open-source Kubernetes-native stream processing framework developed to address the challenges of real-time data analytics. The presentation highlighted how Numaflow enables easy, cost-efficient, and resilient stream processing without the steep learning curve or operational intensity of existing solutions. It showed Intuit’s successful implementation of Numaflow, which processes billions of messages daily across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters, supporting various applications from analytics to machine learning predictions and anomaly detection.
Oct 7, 2024
Vitess: A cloud-native distributed system for scaling MySQL
In this DoK Talk, we learned about Vitess, a powerful database solution for deploying and managing large clusters of MySQL and Percona Server instances. The talk highlighted Vitess’s versatility across cloud and dedicated hardware environments, its ability to extend SQL features with impressive scalability, and its architecture with Kubernetes-friendly features, demonstrating why many enterprises have adopted this solution for their production needs.
Sep 30, 2024
Running Batch Data Workloads in Kubernetes at Dish Network
This DoK Town Hall explored optimizing batch data processing at scale on Kubernetes, addressing the challenges of fast, reliable data processing in the face of exponential data growth. It showcased an architecture leveraging Apache Spark Operator, Apache YuniKorn, Karpenter, and Argo Workflows. This approach aimed to enhance resource allocation, storage performance, and job scheduling, demonstrating how businesses can efficiently handle large-scale data processing for improved decision-making.
Sep 23, 2024
Women in Cloud Native / Airflow on K8s
Women in Cloud Native was presented by Nancy Chauhan, Developer Advocate at LocalStack and founder of Women in Cloud Native. In this session, we heard about Nancy’s journey in cloud native and why she founded the group Women in Cloud Native.
Sep 19, 2024
Calling on Contributors for the Data on Kubernetes SIG Get Started Project
Since its inception in 2020, the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) has been on a mission to promote the use of Kubernetes for stateful and data workloads. While we’ve made significant strides, running stateful applications on Kubernetes remains a challenge for many.
Sep 16, 2024
Anatomy of a DBaaS: Bringing self-serve databases to Kubernetes with open source
This talk was an under-the-hood look at developing an open source DBaaS. We looked at the components that are used for its backend services, frontend, and the inner workings of a DBaaS running on top of Kubernetes.
Aug 20, 2024
Data on Kubernetes Survey: Contribute to the Collective Knowledge of our Community
The Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community is conducting its annual survey to understand the technology issues and trends for running data and stateful workloads on Kubernetes. This year’s survey will focus on DoK ecosystem technologies and AI/ML workloads. We invite you to be part of this year’s survey and contribute to the collective knowledge of our community.
Aug 5, 2024
Announcing Lori Lorusso as Co-Chair for the Data on Kubernetes SIG
We are thrilled to announce that Lori Lorusso, Head of Community at Percona, has been appointed as co-chair for the Data on Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG). This appointment marks an exciting new chapter for our community, and we’re confident that Lori’s extensive experience and passion will drive significant advancements in our mission.