Cloud Native Theater | Data on Kubernetes Day: From VMs to Ku... Gabriele Bartolini & Laurent Parodi

This talk features Gabriele Bartolini from EDB and Laurent Parodi from HSBC, who share the journey of a global bank's transition from virtual machines to a cloud-native PostgreSQL platform using Kubernetes. The speakers discuss how the DBA team embraced their role in advancing the bank's technology, working alongside the Platform Engineering team to develop a secure and compliant internal DBaaS. They cover the essential architecture designed to ensure high availability, security, and disaster recovery, while also presenting a proven pattern for modernizing the DBA role without vendor lock-in. This session provides insights into transforming database management within a regulated financial environment.