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Ben is a software engineer who works out of Couchbase's Manchester office. He's been a part of the autonomous operator team since August, which introduced him to the data on Kubernetes ecosystem. Ben has been developing applications for the cloud since he finished university in 2021 and has worked with a number of languages and technologies, more recently focusing on Go, K8s and Couchbase Server.

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Rethinking Node Drains: A Webhook Based Approach to Graceful Pod Removal
Couchbase Autonomous Operator
Rethinking Node Drains: A Webhook Based Approach to Graceful Pod Removal

The Eviction Reschedule Hook project uses Kubernetes Admission Controllers to intercept and reject eviction requests for operator-managed pods.

Ben Mottershead, Software EngineerJustin Ashworth - Senior Software Engineer
July 17, 2025 | 12 MIN READ
Setting Up Cross-VPC XDCR Between Amazon EKS Clusters
Cross Data Center Replication (XDCR)
Setting Up Cross-VPC XDCR Between Amazon EKS Clusters

Set up Couchbase XDCR for seamless data replication between clusters in separate AWS EKS environments. Enhance resilience, disaster recovery, and performance.

Rob Hadaway, Sr. Solutions ArchitectBen Mottershead, Software Engineer
December 20, 2024 | 9 MIN READ
Amazon Web Services (AWS) / Disaster Recovery / VPC Peering