Sep 23–26, 2019

Paige Roberts
Open Source Relations Manager, Vertica

Paige Roberts is an open source relations manager at Vertica, where she promotes understanding of the company, MPP data processing, open source, high-scale data engineering, and how the analytics revolution is changing the world. In 23 years in the data management industry, Paige has worked as an engineer, a trainer, a support technician, a technical writer, a marketer, a product manager, and a consultant. She’s built data engineering pipelines and architectures, documented and tested open source analytics implementations, spun up Hadoop clusters, picked the brains of stars in data analytics and engineering, worked with a lot of different industries, and questioned a lot of assumptions.

Sessions

11:20am–12:00pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1E 07/08

Kubernetes for stateful MPP systems

Data Engineering and Architecture

Secondary topics: Cloud Platforms and SaaS, Data Management and Storage, Data, Analytics, and AI Architecture

Paige Roberts (Vertica), Deepak Majeti (Vertica)

GoodData needed to autorecover from node failures and scale rapidly when workloads spiked on their MPP database in the cloud. Kubernetes could solve it, but it's for stateless microservices, not a stateful MPP database that needs hundreds of containers. Paige Roberts and Deepak Majeti detail the hurdles GoodData needed to overcome in order to merge the power of the database with Kubernetes. Read more.