Join us for 2025's first Kubernetes Pune meetup! Connect with peers, explore talks on Kubernetes and cloud!

Agenda

10:30 AM
Intro and Welcome

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Building Real-Time Analytics Apps on Apache Pinot: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead

In today’s fast-paced data landscape, delivering actionable insights in real-time is vital. This session explores building enterprise-grade analytics applications using Apache Pinot, a scalable OLAP system for ultra-fast analytics. Discover innovative use cases like anomaly detection (StarTree ThirdEye), fraud detection, ML model monitoring, and real-time dashboards. Learn how Pinot’s architecture ensures lightning-fast query performance and powers scalable applications. Attendees will also explore the StarTree Application blueprint—a modular infrastructure enabling developers to build production-ready real-time apps in days. Geared toward developers, architects, and data enthusiasts, this session offers practical strategies to unlock real-time data insights with Apache Pinot.

Speaker: Tushar Thole (Head of Applications engineering at StarTree)

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Transforming Kubernetes Data Protection: Implementing Changed Block Tracking with CSI

In this talk, Prasad navigates through the Kubernetes Enhancement Proposal (KEP-3314), which adds Changed Block Tracking (CBT) to the CSI specification in Kubernetes. Learn how CBT can enable efficient and reliable differential backups of CSI block volumes and how this can benefit your stateful applications. Discover the collaborative efforts of the Data Protection Working Group to evolve KEP-3314. Get a sneak peek into its design for the alpha release with a live prototype demonstration.

Speaker: Prasad Ghangal (MTS at Veeam | Tech Lead at InfraCloud)

12:30 PM - 01:00 PM
Snacks and Networking

Looking forward to seeing you all there!