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📢 This review is for a talk which will be held at the FOSS United Hyderabad meetup on 8 February.
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Modern distributed databases like TiDB offer unparalleled scalability and reliability. However, managing their planned maintenance in a production-grade environment can pose significant challenges. At Flipkart, one of the teams has automated this critical process using Kubernetes Operators, enabling seamless management of TiDB clusters with no downtime. This talk will explore the design, implementation, and operationalization of this automation framework.
Speaker Raj Suvariya will delve into how the Kubernetes Operator simplifies planned maintenance by orchestrating complex workflows while ensuring high availability.
Attendees will gain insights into Flipkart’s journey, the challenges we faced, and how the engineering team solved them in automating the lifecycle of TiDB maintenance.
- Database administrators
- DevOps engineers
- Platform engineers
- Kubernetes enthusiasts
This talk claims to offers valuable takeaways on combining the power of Kubernetes with modern distributed databases for operational excellence.
- Automation for operational efficiency: learn how leveraging Kubernetes Operators can streamline the planned maintenance of distributed databases like TiDB, reducing manual intervention and minimizing downtime.
- Best Practices and lessons learned: gain insights into the practical challenges and solutions which Flipkart implemented during its automation journey, providing actionable takeaways for improving database lifecycle management in production environments.
Raj Suvariya has 8+ years experience with different tech stacks like mobile, frontend, backend, and platform engineering. He is currently working with Stripe as a Software Engineer. Previously, he has worked with Flipkart, Tekion and InMobi. He was recently declared as TiDB Champion.
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