Piotr Szmielew
Chief Architect @ MusicGlue
Piotr has been working in Elixir for almost six years now after a decade of being a fanatic Rubyist. Currently he works at Music Glue as Chief Architect where he helps music bands around the world provide their customers with best ecommerce experience possible.
He is certified Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect and Professional Cloud Security Engineer, which he uses in his daily work with GKE K8S clusters containing Elixir deployments.
He was also teaching bootcamps a while ago and is a proud “father” of success for some of the amazing people in Ruby on Rails Polish community.
Talk:
Four Years of Running Elixir on Kubernetes in Google Cloud: Lessons Learned
We have been running whole production system, powering multiple ecommerce stores for some of the biggest names in the music industry, on Google Kubernetes Engine for four years. During that we hit some potholes, learning our lessons the hard way.
In this talk I will tell you about the most significant ones, hopefully saving you troubles we already went through.