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ERP Vendors Are Paying Attention—Here’s What You Need to Know
ERP Vendors Are Paying Attention—Here’s What You Need to Know
Hi MD Abul,
Lately, we’ve been talking a lot about ERP vendors—their evolving strategies, challenges, and how they’re adapting to industry shifts. And it’s clear they’re listening. Many have reached out to our team, showing just how important these conversations are.
If you’re following these trends, you might find a recent blog insightful. It explores:
- How Composable ERP is Reshaping the Industry – Why more organizations are moving toward modular solutions
- What ERP Vendors Are Doing Differently – From pricing models to product roadmaps, how their strategies are evolving
- What This Means for Your Digital Transformation – Key factors to consider when evaluating your ERP options
With so much changing in the ERP space, understanding these shifts is crucial for making informed decisions.
Would love to hear your thoughts—are you seeing these changes firsthand?
Best regards,
Eric Kimberling
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[FHL 10 Encore] Register to watch the replay!
Todd here again!
Well, the last FHL ever was harder than I expected to get up on the FHL stage with Russell for the last time.
Yes, we’re turning the page, but does it have to end?
I’ve been getting lots of emails over the last couple weeks, asking if we will allow people to re-watch the presentations.
(Or watch them for the first time because they couldn’t make it to Vegas…)
And the answer is yes!
This is your chance to watch all of those life-changing presentations one more time and soak in all of the awesome speakers and presenters.
Are you up for that?
And remember, this isn’t a cliffnotes version of FHL 10… We’re showing pretty much ALL of the presentations virtually!
It’s going to be NEXT MONDAY, TUESDAY, and WEDNESDAY (March 10th - 12th - Starting every day at 8am PT / 11am PT ).
FHL 10 was honestly one… if not the best FHL we’ve ever had!
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How Uber Built Odin to Handle 3.8 Million Containers
How Uber Built Odin to Handle 3.8 Million Containers
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In the early days, the engineers at Uber had to take care of databases and storage systems manually. Whenever they needed to set up, update, or fix something, they followed written instructions called "runbooks". These runbooks were like a step-by-step guide.
As Uber grew, this manual process became overwhelming. They had thousands of databases spread globally, and managing them by hand was a slow and difficult process prone to mistakes.
To solve this, Uber created Odin, an automated system that manages all these databases and storage clusters without human intervention. Unlike older systems that work with only specific types of databases, Odin is technology-agnostic, meaning it can handle many different databases and storage systems seamlessly.
Odin helps Uber’s engineers organize, scale, and maintain their storage infrastructure, ensuring everything runs smoothly and reliably. In this article, we will look at a comprehensive breakdown of Odin and the challenges Uber faced while developing it.
The Scale of Odin
Since 2014, Uber’s data infrastructure has expanded at an unprecedented scale.
What started with a few hundred hosts has now evolved into a massive fleet of over 100,000 hosts, supporting a huge number of stateful workloads.
These workloads are essential for Uber’s real-time services, including ride-hailing, food delivery, and payment processing, all of which depend on highly available and scalable storage solutions.
As per an estimate, Uber’s fleet collectively manages multiple exbibytes of storage. To put this into perspective 1 exbibyte equals 1,152,921.5 terabytes (TB). Multiple exbibytes place Uber’s storage in the zettabyte-scale range.
This level of storage capacity is necessary because Uber generates massive volumes of real-time data, such as:
Ride and trip history
GPS tracking logs
User profiles and payment transactions
Machine learning models
Operational logs.
Odin allows Uber to manage this enormous ecosystem through automation, self-healing mechanisms, and efficient resource scheduling. It is responsible for handling:
300,000 workloads, where each workload represents a collection of processes running on a machine, similar to Kubernetes pods.
3.8 million individual containers, which means each workload can have multiple containers running different components of Uber’s stateful services.
In essence, Odin optimizes how storage is allocated and accessed to ensure fast read/write performance while preventing unnecessary duplication and inefficiency. Odin is also technology-agnostic, meaning it doesn’t just manage a single type of database or storage system but instead integrates with 23 different storage technologies, including:
Traditional Online Databases such as MySQL (relational) and Cassandra (distributed NoSQL database)
Big Data and Streaming Platforms such as HDFS, Kafka, and Presto
Resource Scheduling and Workflow Management such as Yarn and Buildkite
Each of these technologies serves a specific purpose within Uber’s ecosystem, and Odin ensures they can all operate efficiently within the same unified infrastructure. For example:
MySQL and Cassandra require high availability and read/write consistency, so Odin ensures replicas are correctly placed and synchronized.
Kafka requires high-throughput storage and low-latency access, so Odin manages partition distribution across nodes.
HDFS and Presto require large-scale batch processing, so Odin makes sure that storage resources are efficiently utilized.
Odin’s Architecture and Design Principles
Unlike traditional imperative systems that require explicit commands to perform tasks, Odin follows a declarative model where engineers define what the system should look like (goal state) rather than how to achieve it.
To maintain the goal state, Odin employs self-healing remediation loops that continuously monitor the system state and detect deviations. If any deviation is found, it takes corrective actions automatically without human intervention.
See the diagram below that shows the steps within Odin’s remediation loop.
For example, an engineer defines that a database should always have three replicas. Odin automatically ensures this is always the case. If a replica fails or a node crashes, Odin self-heals by spinning up a new instance to meet the goal state.
This design is similar to Kubernetes but optimized for stateful workloads such as databases and large-scale storage systems.
The diagram below shows a high-level view of Odin’s architecture.
The key architectural components of Odin are as follows:
1 - Grail: The Data Integration Platform
Odin’s intelligence depends on having an accurate and up-to-date view of Uber’s global infrastructure. This is handled by Grail.
Grail provides a real-time snapshot of all hosts, containers, and workloads across Uber’s infrastructure. It works similarly to the Kubernetes API Server but at a much larger scale. It allows engineers and remediation loops to query global system state instantly, enabling informed scheduling and decision-making.
The key advantages of Grail are as follows:
Operates across tens of thousands of hosts in multiple data centers and cloud regions.
Works with all storage technologies managed by Odin.
Unlike traditional database monitoring tools that operate per data center, Grail aggregates data across all Uber locations.
2 - Remediation Loops
At the core of Odin’s automation capabilities are remediation loops.
Each remediation loop is a separate microservice. This allows independent development and deployment without affecting other parts of the system. It follows a four-step cycle:
Inspect the goal state (what the system should look like).
Collect the actual state (what the system currently looks like).
Identify discrepancies between the goal and the actual state.
Trigger corrective actions using Cadence workflows.
This process is continuous, ensuring that Odin actively maintains stability and performance.
3 - The Control Plane
Odin’s control plane is responsible for orchestrating workloads, scheduling tasks, and managing cluster topology.
The core responsibilities of the Control Plane are as follows:
Workload Scheduling: It decides where and how workloads should be deployed based on system health, resource availability, and performance needs.
Cluster Management and Topology Decisions: Determines how databases and storage clusters should be distributed across Uber’s infrastructure.
Workflow Execution (via Cadence): Engineers interact with the control plane through Cadence workflows. These workflows define specific actions, such as upgrading a database or rescheduling workloads.
4 - Host-Level Agents
Odin’s architecture separates global control from local execution using two host-level agents.
Odin-Agent: This runs on every host in Uber’s infrastructure and handles generic host-level tasks, such as resource allocation (CPU, memory, and disk), container lifecycle management, and disk volume and cgroup management.
Technology-Specific Worker: A containerized agent that runs inside each database or storage workload. It is tailored to the specific technology being used (for example, MySQL and Cassandra). This agent ensures that the database internals align with the goal state.
See the diagram below that shows the two host-level agents in more detail.
By separating general host management (Odin-Agent) from database-specific logic (Worker), Odin maintains standardization and customization across different workloads.
Odin’s Key Features and Innovations
As mentioned, Odin is a stateful workload management system designed to handle Uber’s massive-scale database and storage infrastructure.
1 - Self Healing System
Odin continuously compares the desired goal state with the actual state of the system. If a deviation is detected, it automatically triggers corrective actions through Cadence workflows.
No human intervention is required in this process. The system detects and fixes failures autonomously. This eliminates downtime caused by manual debugging. Moreover, Odin constantly fine-tunes itself to maintain optimal performance.
2 - High Availability and Fault Tolerance
Odin ensures high availability through dynamic workload rescheduling and failure-handling mechanisms.
60% of workloads are rescheduled each month to balance resource utilization. Workloads move between hosts dynamically to optimize performance and maintain resilience against failures. Odin makes real-time rescheduling decisions based on resource usage, fault tolerance, and availability requirements.
One of Odin’s key innovations is its make-before-break strategy. Before shutting down a workload, Odin provisions a replacement instance. The old instance is only removed once the new one is fully operational. This approach is important for stateful workloads like databases, where shutting down a node without a replacement can cause data loss, unavailability, or increased latency.
3 - Efficient Storage Management
When Odin was introduced, containerizing databases was still a relatively uncommon and controversial practice. However, Uber fully embraced containerized stateful workloads.
An innovation Odin brought to the table was placing multiple database instances on a single host. Traditionally, databases run on dedicated machines, wasting resources. Odin enables up to 100 databases to be colocated on the same host by managing CPU, memory, and disk allocation.
Unlike traditional NAS-based database solutions, Odin relies on locally attached SSDs and HDDs. This results in lower latency, higher throughput, and reduced costs.
4 - Workload Identity and Stateful Migration
Stateful applications require persistent identity across rescheduling events. Unlike Kubernetes StatefulSets, which assigns a stable pod identity, Odin takes a different approach.
In this approach, workload identity is preserved across rescheduling events. Data replication is performed before workload termination. Goal-state propagation ensures that the new instance picks up exactly where the old one left off. In other words, the workload transition is seamless, with no downtime or loss of service.
Challenges and Optimization Strategies in Odin
Managing a platform as large as Odin comes with significant engineering challenges.
As Uber scaled, Odin had to evolve from a human-driven system to a fully automated, highly coordinated, and resilient infrastructure management platform.
Some key takeaways are as follows:
The manual workload management was no longer scalable. Fleet-wide optimizations were needed for resiliency, cost savings, upgrades, and data center migrations.
Uncoordinated operations (like workload migrations and container upgrades) could take down clusters. Consensus-based databases needed careful migration strategies.
A global coordination system was needed to solve these problems. This was done using predefined budgets for allowable disruptions and enforcing platform-wide global concurrency constraints.
Conclusion
Odin represents a significant leap in stateful workload management, enabling Uber to scale its infrastructure from hundreds to over 100,000 hosts while maintaining high availability, cost efficiency, and operational stability.
By transitioning from manual, human-driven operations to an intent-based, self-healing, and automated orchestration system, Odin has eliminated inefficiencies and minimized downtime in Uber’s mission-critical storage systems.
The key innovations behind Odin, such as self-healing remediation loops, intelligent workload rescheduling, make-before-break migrations, and platform-wide coordination mechanisms, have allowed Uber to achieve 95%+ resource utilization.
As Uber continues to grow, Odin is set to evolve further, integrating new optimizations, smarter automation, and deeper AI-driven workload management.
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But… Here's my question… Does FHL 10 have to end yet??
I’ve been getting hit up by a TON of people over the last couple weeks, asking when they can re-watch the presentations.
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Hey, it's Todd!
And I have some special news for you – If you by chance missed FHL 10… or, you want to relive the amazing experience…
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This is a great opportunity to catch nearly all of the presentations from FHL 10! (Just a few can’t be re-played for legal reasons… but we fit most of them in there for you!)
This is a great way to relive FHL 10! Or… Watch it for the first time if you missed us in Las Vegas!
See you in the encore!
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Following the paths of the steam engine, the internet, and the smartphone, gen AI has the potential to propel the newest transformation of how people work and how organizations operate. While much attention has been paid to gen AI’s rise over the past two years, most companies are just beginning their AI journeys. In fact, McKinsey research finds that only 1 percent of leaders report that their organizations have achieved maturity in their AI deployment—and they continue to ask lots of questions about the technology, on everything from organizing data and finding the right partners to balancing risk and value creation. This week, we look at how organizations can use gen AI to empower their employees and produce long-term value.
Organizations investing in AI are on a quest to achieve “superagency,” a state where digitally empowered individuals supercharge their creativity, productivity, and positive impact. What will it take to get there? In a new report, McKinsey’s Hannah Mayer, Lareina Yee, Michael Chui, and Roger Roberts say that leaders must be bold in adopting AI to avoid falling behind their competitors. “The history of major economic and technological shifts shows that such moments can define the rise and fall of companies,” the authors note. It’s important for organizations to move quickly and responsibly in developing practical gen AI applications that can empower employees and generate measurable ROI. Executives also should recognize that leading a sustained digital transformation is about more than adopting a new technology. “It is a business challenge that calls upon leaders to align teams, address AI headwinds, and rewire their companies for change,” the authors say. To learn more, explore “AI in Action,” an interactive learning series featuring Yee and Silicon Valley pioneer Reid Hoffman, whose book Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future inspired the McKinsey report.
That’s how much faster organizations can accelerate their timelines for modernizing IT systems, by using gen AI to eliminate much of the company’s manual work. McKinsey’s Aaron Bawcom and Matt Fitzpatrick and coauthors also estimate that harnessing gen AI can help organizations cut 40 percent of costs derived from their tech debt—that is, the “tax” a company pays in time and resources needed to solve tech issues.
That’s McKinsey’s Asin Tavakoli, Holger Harreis, Kayvaun Rowshankish, and Michael Bogobowicz on how organizations can chart a path to becoming truly data- and AI-driven by 2030. The authors outline seven priorities for leaders to keep in mind as they seek to tap into gen AI’s potential value. These include inspiring the organization to think and act “data and AI first”; focusing on data strategies that can deliver competitive advantages; and harnessing the volume and value of unstructured data, such as videos, chats, and product reviews.
Within three years, all workers can have a gen AI-powered digital companion that can make them better versions of themselves. That’s what Navin Chaddha, managing partner at the venture capital firm Mayfield Fund, envisions as he looks toward a future of mass gen AI adoption. “Our strong belief is that these AI teammates and humans will work together so that humans can work at their exponential potential, what I call ‘human squared,’” Chaddha says on a recent episode of McKinsey’s At the Edge podcast. He suggests that leaders start thinking now about how AI can augment human capabilities, rather than focusing only on the technology’s ability to automate tasks and accelerate productivity. “The CEOs and executives who endorse it will get on the other side, and people who don’t will end up becoming dinosaurs,” he says.
Gen AI’s potential for great rewards also comes with some great risks. Gen AI-powered digital agents, which can execute tasks independently, may help people enhance the quality of their work. But tech industry observers also fear that these tools may present a major cybersecurity threat. McKinsey’s Justin Greis and Marc Sorel and coauthors note that gen AI represents a significant opportunity for cybersecurity solutions providers. “For those charged with keeping organizations safe, these new AI-based threats pose an unprecedented challenge—they are more sophisticated, unrelenting, and shifting,” they say. It’s critical for leaders in areas such as product development, compliance, risk, and operations to adopt AI guardrails to ensure the technology is used safely and responsibly. Guardrails can help organizations ensure AI-generated content is appropriate and accurate, protect against privacy and security breaches, comply with regulations, and maintain trust with customers.
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