Stateful Superpowers: Explore High Performa... Alex Chircop, Chris Milsted & Alex Reid, Lori Lorusso
Alex Chircop, Chris Milsted, Alex Reid, Lori Lorusso
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · Session
In this insightful KubeCon EU talk, "Stateful Superpowers: Explore High Performance Cloud Native Storage," Alex Chircop, Lori Lorusso, Alex Reid, and Chris Milsted challenged the common misconception of entirely stateless architectures, asserting that all applications eventually store state. The presentation systematically dismantled the notion that stateful workloads are incompatible with cloud-native principles, instead demonstrating how Kubernetes can be leveraged to manage complex, high-performance stateful applications with unprecedented efficiency and resilience.
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This talk effectively dismantles the "stateless architecture" myth by demonstrating how Kubernetes, powered by intelligent operators like CloudNativePG and TiKV, can manage high-performance stateful workloads with unprecedented efficiency and resilience. The speakers, clearly deeply technical, provided compelling live demonstrations showcasing automated failover for PostgreSQL and achieving a staggering 1 million random read IOPS with TiKV leveraging local NVMe storage. This session offers a pragmatic, technically rich pathway for architects and engineers to confidently deploy and operate…