Presented By
O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
Kris Nova

Kris Nova
Senior Developer Advocate, Independent

Kris Nova is a senior developer advocate at Heptio focusing on containers, infrastructure, and Kubernetes. She is also an ambassador for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. Previously, Kris was a developer advocate and an engineer on Kubernetes in Azure at Microsoft. She has a deep technical background in the Go programming language and has authored many successful tools in Go. Kris is a Kubernetes maintainer and the creator of kubicorn, a successful Kubernetes infrastructure management tool. She organizes a special interest group in Kubernetes and is a leader in the community. Kris understands the grievances with running cloud native infrastructure via a distributed cloud native application and recently authored an O’Reilly book on the topic: Cloud Native Infrastructure. Kris lives in Seattle, WA, and spends her free time mountaineering.

Sessions

14:05–14:45 Thursday, 2 May 2019
Autoscaling Spark on Kubernetes
Data Engineering and Architecture, Expo Hall
 Location: Expo Hall 2 (Capital Hall N24)
Secondary topics:  AI and Data technologies in the cloud
Holden Karau (Independent), Kris Nova (Independent)
Average rating: ****.
(4.86, 7 ratings)
In the Kubernetes world, where declarative resources are a first-class citizen, running complicated workloads across distributed infrastructure is easy, and processing big data workloads using Spark is common practice, we can finally look at constructing a hybrid system of running Spark in a distributed cloud native way. Join respective experts Kris Nova and Holden Karau for a fun adventure. Read more.