Do your customers rely on your Kubernetes application as a mission-critical backend for their applications? Is your Kubernetes application running on multiple clouds and multiple regions in those clouds? Do you provide a stateful application running on top of Kubernetes?

Join Rick Spencer, VP of Platform at InfluxData, as he shares lessons learned the hard way on the journey to leveraging Kubernetes to deliver a stateful application and how a single binary time series database evolved to a massive multi-tenant cloud-native application running at scale. Rick will cover the 5 things he wished he knew about Kubernetes before embarking on this journey, pertaining to seamless upgrades, CI and CD, developer tooling, monitoring and observability, and multi-cloud support. Why learn the hard way when you can learn from our experience?