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May 19, 2021
Explanation of NVMe for Everyone
I was talking to a friend recently about his computer build and one thing struck me. He had bought an NVMe drive not because he knew what it was or how it differed from anything else but because he felt overwhelmed by information when trying to research it. Due to this he just made his purchase based on the advice of a popular youtube channel. Working with storage professionally I was a bit taken aback by the lack of simple, plain english, easily accessible information on what the actual differences are. This blog is going to be my effort to clear the air and provide the layman’s guide to understanding what NVMe is as a technology and why it matters to you. This should be applicable all the way from DIY computer builders people setting up enterprise architectures.
Feb 9, 2021
Deconstructing Postgres into a cloud native platform
Postgres has been around for a long time in the DB space. Known to be a very reliable and sturdy technology even considered boring to some. But we were lucky enough to have Álvaro Hernández on to talk to us about Postgres innovations that are coming our way. If you want to re-watch the original click here. If you don’t have time, give this article a read.
Feb 3, 2021
The Architecture of Distributed Databases with / Cockroach Labs
Even though 2020 is over an 2021 brings a great deal of optimism and Hope not that much has changed apart from the changing of the calendar year. So many people still have Zoom meetings to attend to, children to take care of in the next room and a beautiful constellation of responsibilities that only a person who works from home has to deal with, so it’s totally understandable that you didn’t have time to check out one of the latest meetups that we held here at Data on Kubernetes. But fear not, in this article we will give you the lowdown on what was discussed, a summary with the key points of everything you need to know about the key points of the cockroach DB presentation. In case you have some time, and you like to watch up just follow the link.
Jan 3, 2021
Running Apache Spark on Kubernetes
Apache Spark is one of the leading frameworks for analyzing data in real-time with Spark Structured Streaming, this talk explains how to step by step run Spark structured streaming jobs on Kubernetes and access the Spark UI to see the jobs metrics and progress.
Sep 5, 2020
SRE vs Data Engineer — Who Owns What?
Photo by Lorenzo from Pexels Demetrios One question that I have been pondering lately is where do the requirements of an SRE end and a data engineer begin and visa versa? bmath
Aug 26, 2020
A Call for Collaboration: Announcing the Data On Kubernetes Community
I’m happy to help announce the launch of a new community — the Data On Kubernetes Community. The Dok.community is an openly governed and self-organizing group of curious and experienced operators and engineers concerned with running data-intensive workloads on Kubernetes. DoKc takes inspiration from the CNCF and Apache foundations and aims like each of them to be open, vendor-neutral, and extremely inclusive.