Raul Benencia, ThousandEyes, part of Cisco
The cloud-native ecosystem has evolved. Infrastructures self-heal. Features rollout seamlessly. Rollbacks happen automatically. Speed, quality, cost - all optimized. But you're in a different boat: you're dealing with an outdated legacy system and a migration is essential to stay in the game.
Embark with us as we tackled this challenge, moving from scavenged servers to a global Kubernetes infrastructure. Our path sailed the complexities of modernizing legacy systems, managing a baremetal Kubernetes cluster, migrating it to self-managed Kubernetes cluster in the cloud, and migrating it once again to a managed installation using a service mesh. We faced tough trade-offs and learned to balance resources with operational efficiency. Now, as we reflect on our journey, we're left with valuable insights and a compelling narrative. A narrative that promises to resonate with all SREs facing similar challenges, as we continue to evolve in this rapidly changing ecosystem.
Raul Benencia, ThousandEyes, part of Cisco
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Hailing from Argentina and now living in San Francisco, Raul Benencia has navigated a dynamic 15-year tech journey, from system and network administration, to operating systems development, to security engineering. He's currently an SRE Technical Leader at ThousandEyes, part of Cisco, where he has assumed a myriad of roles and is currently leading its Kubernetes and containers strategy. Off duty, he immerses himself in compelling books, contributes to the Debian project, and nimbly M-x's through Emacs.
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