Explore a 17-minute conference talk that examines the challenges and solutions for scaling microservices with stateful backends in Kubernetes environments. Learn how disaggregated applications face scaling challenges, particularly in their backend components, and understand the impact of scale on data systems including table scans, index creation, backup operations, data integrity, and changefeeds. Discover a framework for evaluating system scalability based on minimizing the impact of growth across various operational dimensions, helping development teams build more agile and resilient applications. Gain insights from PingCAP's expertise on optimizing backend performance and maintaining efficiency as applications scale within cloud-native architectures.