Josh Berkus
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where they keep going back
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe5 editions2018–2025
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America4 editions2016–2021
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India2 editions2025–2026
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- Gabriele Bartolini17 talks
- Kris Nova23 talks
- David Pech8 talks
- Katie Gamanji35 talks
- Madhav Jivrajani11 talks
- Tiffany Jernigan27 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| etcd in 2026: Enhancements, V3.7 Roadmap... | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026 | 2026-06-18 |
etcd v3.7 delivers concrete changes: range stream sends chunks so a 5,000-key (~500 MB) range drops from ~160 ms to ~88 ms in the demo, and keys-only… | ||
| Introduction to Bootable Containers | KCD SF Bay Area 2025 | 2025-09-09 |
Demonstrates building a full OS as a container image using Bootsie / bootc bootable containers, builds a Kubernetes 1.33 node image with Podman Desktop +… | ||
| Build Your K8s Ready Distro With BootC | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 | 2025-08-06 |
Builds an OS image as a container and boots it: uses Podman Desktop with the Bootc extension to build a Fedora-based bootable container, convert it to a raw… | ||
| Redefining Inclusion: Building Truly Global Cloud N... | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 | 2025-08-06 |
Project audit finds 80 community meetings with 80 meetings, 75 favor NA/EU, 0 Oceania and only two matching South Asia timezones, so contributors outside those… | ||
| SIG etcd Maintainer Track Talk | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025 | 2025-08-06 |
etcd v3.6 is the first feature release in four years and adds downgrade to 3.5 (rolling protocol+storage downgrade), removes the obsolete v2 store path… | ||
| Expanding the Contributor Pipeline Through Inclusion | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Projects that want more contributors adopt specific practices: record and document every meeting, publish simple CONTRIBUTING docs with diagrams that include… | ||
| Keynote: Nurturing The Whole Project | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 | 2022-05-16 |
Open source projects need more than code: explicit numbers and tools matter. The CNFC offers contributor growth framework and a templates repo with governance… | ||
| Turn Contributors into Maintainers with TAG Contributor Strategy | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 | 2021-10-11 |
Provides ready-to-use templates and a measurable process to turn contributors into maintainers: a contributor ladder template (six levels in the repo, typical… | ||
| Build your Contributor Pipeline | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021 | 2021-05-04 |
CNCF SIG Contributor Strategy lays out concrete, reusable assets: a cloneable contributor templates repo (pick files or clone whole), a published contributor… | ||
| CNCF Project Paperwork Working Session | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 Virtual | 2020-11-17 |
Explains exact CNCF paperwork: clone the templates repo on GitHub, use Apache-2 and the CNCF Code of Conduct, add a contributing guide and lightweight roadmap… | ||
| Benchmark Your Cloud-Native Database | DevConf.CZ 2020 | 2020-01-24 |
Speakers: Josh Berkus, Sagy Volkov
Sure you CAN host a database on Openshift/Kubernetes, but SHOULD you? What kind of performance do you see on various… | ||
| Ignite - How Fast Was My Kubernetes? | devopsdays Portland 2019 | 2019-09-10 |
Microbenchmarks run PostgreSQL, CockroachDB and others on bare metal, local volumes, and cloud‑native stacks using Ceph with Rook. Local volumes show near… | ||
| Benchmark Your Cloud Native Database | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2019 | 2019-06-24 |
Benchmarks compare bare metal, node-local volumes, and Rook/Ceph on a six‑blade cluster (20 cores, 128GB RAM, two 200GB SSDs) running sysbench/fio, pgbench and… | ||
| Benchmark Your Cloud Native Database | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2019 | 2019-06-24 |
Compares four storage types on a six‑blade bare‑metal cluster (20 cores, 128 GB RAM, two 200 GB SSDs): bare metal host, container with local PVs, and… | ||
| Benchmarking Cloud Native Storage | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 | 2019-05-20 |
Benchmarks use sysbench, PGbench and CockroachDB workload tools on a 6-node 20-core, 120GB RAM, 2×200GB SSD cluster with a shared network. Tests compare… | ||
| A Kubernetes Application End-to-End: DevStats | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 | 2019-05-20 |
DevStats is fully ported to Kubernetes and runs in production using Patroni 3-node HA Postgres with one PV per node, Grafana instances per project, hourly cron… | ||
| Kubernetes + CentOS in 15 Minutes | CentOS Dojo at DevConf.US 2018 | 2018-08-16 |
Step-by-step build of a 5-node cluster on CentOS using kubeadm and docker on AWS: installs kubelet/kubectl, copies master certificates for client access, runs… | ||
| Who What How: Understanding Kubernetes Development through DevStats - Josh Berkus & Łukasz Gryglicki | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2018 | 2018-05-02 |
DevStats pulls GitHub Archive events plus Git and limited GitHub API calls into Postgres, rolls hourly metrics into InfluxDB and Grafana at… | ||
| Kube-native Postgres [I] | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 | 2017-12-06 |
Patroni moves PostgreSQL to be Kubernetes-native by dropping etcd and using the Kubernetes API for leader election, storing leadership in ConfigMap+Endpoint… | ||
| Schrodinger's Elephant | PostgresOpen Silicon Valley 2017 | 2017-09-06 |
Argues that containerizing Postgres buys portability and CI/CD convenience but exposes real limits: large databases hit the Linux OOM killer, default… | ||
| Elephants on Automatic: HA Clustered PostgreSQL with Helm [I] | CloudNativeCon + KubeCon Europe 2017 | 2017-03-29 |
Demonstrates automated HA PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using Patroni + Helm chart and a CitusDB sharded cluster (1 query + 6 shards), deploying statefulsets with… | ||
| Containerized Clustered PostgreSQL | PGConf Silicon Valley 2016 | 2016-11-14 |
Argues that containerized clustered PostgreSQL runs best on Kubernetes StatefulSet (petset) and shows working prototypes: a Patron/Patroni daemon run as PID 1… | ||
| PostgreSQL on PetSet | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2016 | 2016-11-08 |
Deploys PostgreSQL on Kubernetes using PetSet/StatefulSet, Patroni for automatic primary election and etcd as the distributed config store, with a live demo on… | ||
| Tutorial | PGConf Silicon Valley 2015 | 2015-11-17 |
Hands‑on setup uses Vagrant/Docker VMs, tmux and psql to show real admin tasks: pg_dump/pg_restore for logical backups (fine for <1GB, restores can take hours… | ||
| Postgres Performance in 15 Minutes | DjangoCon US 2015 | 2015-09-06 |
Claim: configuration tweaks account for less than 20% of performance while a handful of bad requests consume most resources; concrete fixes include removing… | ||
| Seven Deadly Sins of Software Deployment | Ignite OSCON 2013 | 2013-07-22 |
A fast list of seven concrete deployment anti-patterns and what breaks: no deployment scripts and hand-run steps, cheap staging servers that don’t match… | ||
| Super Jumbo Delux | Postgres Open 2012 | 2012-09-17 |
Argues that PostgreSQL is the go-to first tool for data warehousing before proprietary systems or MapReduce and shows concrete limits and wins: index-only… | ||
| Linux Event TV: Josh Berkus and PostgreSQL | LinuxCon North America 2012 | 2012-08-29 |
PostgreSQL 9.2 arrives in weeks with two concrete changes: across-the-board performance improvements that target scaling on larger systems and new JSON support… | ||
| Scale Fail | O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011 | 2011-04-11 |
A satire of scaling advice that lists concrete anti-patterns with examples: choose tech by Reddit buzz (build with Clojure and Qt), avoid performance graphs… | ||
| The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Presenters | OSCON 2010 | 2010-07-19 |
Five-minute roast of bad presentation habits that names seven concrete errors and shows how they play out: hide behind the podium, ramble about personal and… | ||
| Josh Berkus at OSCON: Sun, MySQL, PostgreSQL | OSCON 2008 | 2008-07-21 |
Claims Sun shifts focus to revenue after acquiring MySQL, leading to departure from its small PostgreSQL team; a GPL-only MySQL fork called Drizzle cuts… | ||
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