Ramiro Álvarez

Ramiro Álvarez

I’m a Staff Platform Engineer at Empathy.co. I mostly manage Kubernetes Clusters, CI/CD orchestration, Elasticsearch, MongoDB and try to break things on AWS, GCP and Azure.

Running Apache Spark on Kubernetes

Using Spark on K8s to overcome dependency on cloud providers For the last few weeks, I’ve been deploying a Spark cluster on Kubernetes (K8s). I want to share the challenges, architecture and solution details I’ve discovered with you. Challenges At Empathy, all code running in production must be

Running Apache Flink on Kubernetes

During the last weeks, I was deploying a Flink cluster on Kubernetes cluster. I’d like to share the challenges, architecture, Kubernetes deployment, solution details and the journey on this article Challenges At Empathy, all code running in Production must be cloud agnostic. Empathy had a cloud dependency regarding Dataflow