Lessons from the Field: Scale, Availability, and Performance
Join Aerospike AWS, Adjust and Miro for an evening of technical talks focused on the challenges of running real-time, business-critical systems at scale.
Hear firsthand lessons from engineers managing large datasets, database migrations, and cloud infrastructure availability in production. From Miro's Redis-to-Aerospike migration on Kubernetes to AWS best practices for capacity planning and resilience, speakers will share practical insights gained from operating demanding workloads where performance and reliability matter.
Connect with fellow engineers, architects, and technology leaders from Berlin's tech community over drinks and networking.
Agenda
17:30 – 18:00 - Welcome & networking
18:00-18:10 - Opening remarks
Dirk Möller, Regional Lead Germany and EE, Aerospike
18:10 – 18:30 - Adjust (TBD)
18:30 – 18:50 - Pod Ready ≠ Data Safe: Migrating from Redis to Aerospike on Kubernetes
Yuriy Chernikov, Staff Software Engineer, Miro
We moved one of Miro's most critical datasets from Redis to Aerospike on Kubernetes - and not everything went according to plan. A practical talk about what the migration actually took: the design that made mistakes survivable, and the operational lessons that only show up past a terabyte.
18:50-19:10 - Managing Amazon EC2 capacity and availability
Nati Cohen, Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect, Compute, AWS
When running Aerospike on EC2 we want to use the latest storage optimized EC2 instances, select larger sizes for better performance, place them close to our data producers and consumers, and as the business grows- scale. How can we balance these performance requirements, with cost and capacity availability?
In this session we’ll review the variety of capacity usage and reservation models, including capacity reservations, On-Demand Instances, Savings Plans and more. Learn how to combine these models to optimize for cost, performance, and availability.
19:00-20:00- Networking