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Rafa Brito

Rafa Brito

Staff Engineer - StormForge

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Rafa Brito has over 30 years of industry experience, primarily designing and building systems involving distributed computing, Kubernetes, Cloud, grid/HPC, and high-frequency trading infrastructure (HFT). Rafa is a staff engineer at StormForge who is obsessed with providing Kubernetes optimization and scalability to customers. Before StormForge, Rafa was at VMware as an inventor of a Kubernetes migrator to move stateful workloads across different Kubernetes distributions and cloud providers. Before VMware, he was the Global Engineer Lead in Containers and Grid computing at Citigroup. Rafa co-organizes the KCD Texas and CNCF Austin branch. When not working with Kubernetes, you will find Rafa running the Ladybird Trail in Austin, TX, and rooting for his soccer teams: Flamengo, Austin FC, and FC Porto.

Cost Optimization with Karpenter and StormForge

During this session, we will discuss the differences between Cluster AutoScaling (CAS) and recently-donated-to-CNCF Karpenter. With a sample application, we will explain how we performed a bake-off between CAS and Karpenter. Finally, we will show the importance of Requests and Limits and the extra cost gains by fine-tuning Requests and Limits with StormForge SaaS optimized live.

Demystifying Kubernetes Resource Management

We will embark on a journey to unravel the world of Kubernetes resource management, shedding light on foundational primitives and uncovering best practices and real-world scenarios over a 90-minute lab session. We'll demonstrate how requests play a pivotal role in Kubernetes scheduling. We'll delve into the pod Quality of Service (QoS) and its importance in a real-world scenario of node pressure. We will determine pod usage over key cAdvisor metrics, pinpointing a typical situation of a pod being throttled and impacting performance. We will deploy Resource Quotas and Limit Ranges while explaining the lessons learned in multi-tenancy on large Kubernetes deployments. By the end of this session, the audience leaves the room with a clear understanding of how to avoid performance degradation, avoid outages, provide better multi-tenancy, and ultimately reduce cloud costs.

KCD Texas 2024 Sessionize Event

April 2024 Austin, Texas, United States

Rafa Brito

Staff Engineer - StormForge

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