Top 7 Benefits of Kubernetes
Top 7 Benefits of Kubernetes Source: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/top-7-benefits-of-kubernetes 6 September 2022 By: IBM Cloud Education, IBM Cloud Education Exploring the benefits of using this open-source container orchestration solution to manage your microservices architecture. Kubernetes (sometimes referred to as K8s) is an open-source container orchestration platform that schedules and automates the deployment, management and scaling of containerized …. Read More
What does managing a Kubernetes (K8S) cluster mean in practice?
What does managing a Kubernetes (K8S) cluster mean in practice? What is Kubernetes? Anyone who has ever encountered K8S containers knows that the larger the number of them, the more administrative burden they have to endure. In the meantime, questions such as: How do I update my applications to a new version without crashing? If …. Read More
Kubernetes in the retail industry
Kubernetes in the retail industry How a $4 billion retail giant built an enterprise-grade Kubernetes platform Elkjøp, the largest electronics retailer in the Nordics, built an internal Kubernetes platform that is now successfully hosting over 200 production-grade microservices to increase development speed—without compromising security or visibility. Retail revolution powered by microservices With over 400 retail …. Read More
How does containerisation help the automotive industry? What are the advantages if Kubernetes rides shotgun?
How does containerisation help the automotive industry? What are the advantages if Kubernetes rides shotgun? Majority of state-of-the-art cars can be described as mobile server rooms. These cars encompass a multitude of computers that serve various tasks like safety or fuel monitoring. Moreover, there are also computers and embedded controllers for climate control and other …. Read More
Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud
Bringing Pokémon Go to life Throughout my career as an engineer, I’ve had a hand in numerous product launches that grew to millions of users. User adoption typically happens gradually over several months, with new features and architectural changes scheduled over relatively long periods of time. Never have I taken part in anything close to …. Read More
Case study: Spotify
Case study: Spotify Challenge Launched in 2008, the audio-streaming platform has grown to over 200 million monthly active users across the world. “Our goal is to empower creators and enable a really immersive listening experience for all of the consumers that we have today—and hopefully the consumers we’ll have in the future,” says Jai Chakrabarti, …. Read More
Continental puts its own supercomputer for vehicle AI system training, powered by NVIDIA DGX, into operation
Continental and NVIDIA Version for the trade press Continental and NVIDIA are building a high-performance cluster based on NVIDIA DGX AI systems, set to boost autonomous driving development performance. New cluster reduces development time from weeks to hours. Main use cases: Deep Learning, Simulation and Virtual Data Generation. Highend system is the most powerful computer …. Read More
Case Study: Adidas
Case study: Adidas Challenge In recent years, the adidas team was happy with its software choices from a technology perspective—but accessing all of the tools was a problem. For instance, “just to get a developer VM, you had to send a request form, give the purpose, give the title of the project, who’s responsible, give …. Read More
Understanding Kubernetes from Real-world Use Cases
Why Kubernetes? Due to high traffic volume, Tinder’s engineering team faced challenges of scale and stability. What did they do? The answer is, of course, Kubernetes. Tinder’s engineering team solved interesting challenges to migrate 200 services and run a Kubernetes cluster at scale totaling 1,000 nodes, 15,000 pods, and 48,000 running containers. Was that easy? …. Read More
Develop Hundreds of Kubernetes Services at Scale with Airbnb
Developing Kubernetes services at Airbnb scale Cebula: I’m really excited about this track, DevX and DevOps. Personally, it’s very exciting to me because at least at Airbnb, we did have this historical problem of people building DevX tooling and DevOps tooling separately, but not really unifying those two sets of tooling. That’s something I’ve really …. Read More
