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ConFoo 2026 Talks: What’s in a Kubernetes Data Platform? Let’s Build One! & Five Ways to Slow Your Analytic Database (and Avoid Them)

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ConFoo 2026 Talks: What’s in a Kubernetes Data Platform? Let’s Build One! & Five Ways to Slow Your Analytic Database (and Avoid Them)

25th February 2026 – 27th February 2026 Montreal, Canada

Want to be part of one of the largest high-tech events in America? ConFoo is back for its 24th edition, from February 25 to 27, at the Hotel Bonaventure in Montreal! Whether you’re a developer, a CTO or anything in between, you will find a large variety of presentations tailored to your needs!

Our CEO, Robert Hodges, is speaking at ConFoo 2026:

  • What’s in a Kubernetes Data Platform? Let’s Build One!
  • Five Ways to Slow Your Analytic Database (and Avoid Them)
  • Five Ways to Slow Your Analytic Database (and Avoid Them)

We all want analytics that deliver real-time results, but too often systems crawl like slugs. This talk reveals the five biggest performance killers: choosing the wrong database, poor input batching, flawed schemas, queries that don’t parallelize, and skimping on resources. We’ll explain why each slows you down and how to avoid them. You may not hit gazelle speed, but you won’t be stuck at slug pace either.

  • What’s in a Kubernetes Data Platform? Let’s Build One!

Kubernetes is a popular platform for running databases, often as DBaaS for developers. This talk shares real-world lessons from building and operating analytic SaaS platforms. We’ll cover deploying databases on Kubernetes, monitoring, and providing APIs so developers can self-provision and manage. Guidance also includes upgrades, backups, and multi-tenancy—everything you need to start building your own database platform.

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About the Presenter

Robert Hodges – CEO at Altinity

Robert Hodges serves as CEO at Altinity, a leading software and services provider for ClickHouse. Robert has more than 30 years of experience with database systems and applications, including pre-relational databases such as M204, online SQL transaction processing, Hadoop, and analytics. In the last few years, his work has focused on analytical databases, Kubernetes, and open source.

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