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Choosing Kubernetes: managing risk in Cloud infrastructure Ben Butler-Cole Neo4j DBaaS engineering lead

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Neo4j Cloud Customer DBaaS provider 7

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Theme retain risk that is specialized or core to the business 10

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Theme efficient mitigation: concentration of expertise, economies of scale, temporal smoothing 13

Cloud provider Datadog Neo4j ? Customer DBaaS Auth0 Stripe 14

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Theme risks move up or down the chain of delegation over time 16

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“Most people get really excited about running a database inside [Kubernetes]. This is going to make you lose your job—guaranteed.” “Kubernetes supports stateful workloads; I don't.” “Kubernetes only solves part of the problem. The other parts must be solved by the stateful service and through operational expertise.” 18

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Theme hand off risk to our future selves 20

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ReplicaSet Pod Deployment PV StatefulSet PVC 36

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Theme risks are rejected if it’s cheaper for the consumer to mitigate 39

Cloud provider Datadog Neo4j ? Customer … DBaaS Auth0 Stripe 40

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Themes retain risk that is specialized or core to the business efficient mitigation: concentration of expertise, economies of scale, temporal smoothing hand off risk to our future selves risks are rejected if it’s cheaper for the consumer to mitigate risks move up or down the chain of delegation over time 43

Cloud provider Datadog Neo4j ? Customer … DBaaS Auth0 Stripe 44

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