Nicolas Vermande

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Use Multi-Availability Zone Kubernetes for Disaster Recovery

Nicolas Vermandé Nicolas is the principal developer advocate at Ondat. He is an experienced hands-on technologist, evangelist and product owner who has been working in the fields of cloud native technologies, open source software, virtualization and data center networking for the past 17 years. Passionate about enabling users and building cool tech solving real-life problems, you'll often see him speaking at global tech conferences and online events. Outages and degraded performance are inevitable. Operators make mistakes; new protocols introduce errors, natural disasters damage equipment and more. That’s why rather than trust Amazon’s ability to design a hurricane-proof data center, most platform managers opt to spread their application’s infrastructure across multiple availability zones (AZs). AZ outages aren’t terribly common, but