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Announcing PostgresOpen Silicon Valley Guest Keynote: Brandon Philips

Posted By: PostgresOpen on Thursday, August 23

We're excited to announce Brandon Philips the CTO from CoreOS will be joining us as our guest keynote for PostgresOpen Silicon Valley in a couple of weeks.

Brandon Philips was the CTO of CoreOS which was acquired by RedHat, where he is now part of the technical staff. CoreOS was instrumental in the early days of container orchestration and he'll join us to share a little of the journey in particular around etcd and it's evolution.

In July 2013 the etcd project was announced to solve a critical problem for CoreOS: how to safely coordinate unattended automatic software updates across a cluster of Linux nodes. Today hundreds of companies use etcd as part of their production systems to hold critical data for their Kubernetes clusters, network systems, monitoring systems, and much more.

But, how did etcd evolve from a CoreOS intern project to being a critical system in the Cloud Native ecosystem?

This talk will cover the 5 year history of etcd from the stumbles, use cases, and technical evolution. We will also dive into the trade-offs that were made as the system went from theoretical prototype to production ready workhorse.

You don't have to be an expert on containers, orchestration, or etcd to be able to have some great takeaways from this talk.

If you haven't already please make sure to grab your ticket so you'll be able to join us for enlightening talk before we're sold out.