Eric Li, Senior Architect of Alibaba Cloud, presented on using Alluxio on Kubernetes. He discussed:
1. The challenges of deploying Alluxio on Kubernetes, including how to deploy it in a Kubernetes-native way, how applications can access data without changes, and how to achieve best Alluxio performance.
2. Optimizations made to Alluxio including a Helm chart for one-click installation, optimizations to the OSS SDK for data loading speed, and using fuse and short-circuiting for performance.
3. Best practices for using Alluxio on Kubernetes for different workloads like deep learning and genomic computing.