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Autoscaling: case studies over time

10 case studies across 8 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "autoscaling"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Amazon Web Services, Capital One, Coinbase, Zalando SE

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)

Cost-effective Compute Clusters with Spot and Pre-emptible Instances - Bich Le & Arun Sriraman

Speakers share how they ran cost-effective Kubernetes compute clusters on spot and pre-emptible instances.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual

Autoscaling at Scale: How We Manage Capacity @ Zalando - Mikkel Larsen, Zalando SE — Zalando SE

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022

Building Multi-Tenant Routing And Scaling With Envoy - Yiming Peng, Amazon Web Services, Inc. — Amazon Web Services

AWS describes building multi-tenant routing and scaling with Envoy.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2023

How We Build Production-Grade HPA: From Effective Algorithm to Risk-Free... - Ziqiu Zhu & Yiru Guo

Shares how the speakers built a production-grade HPA, from the scaling algorithm to risk-free rollout.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023

Real-World Knative: Success Stories from Production Environments...

Four guest speakers describe how their organizations use Knative in production.

  • ▶ 16:46 … back as well giving different endpoints to to people as well autoscaling and I'll talk a bit about that and this is what …
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Rapidly Scaling for Breaking News with Karpenter and KEDA - Mel Cone & Deepak Goel

Shows how a news organization rapidly scales for breaking-news traffic spikes using Karpenter and KEDA.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024

Fantastic Ordinals and How to Avoid Them: Auto-Scaling Challenges in a Cloud Database

Describes auto-scaling challenges with StatefulSet ordinals when operating a cloud database.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2024

Scaling Beyond Autoscaling: How We Grew Our Kubernetes Clusters - Bhavin Gandhi & Ruturaj Kadikar

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

Autoscaling Spring Boot Apps in Kubernetes With KEDA - John Coyne, Capital One — Capital One

Capital One shares how it autoscales Spring Boot applications on Kubernetes with KEDA.

Rearchitecting Compute at Coinbase: Migrating To Karpenter for Fast, Reliable Scali... Frances Chong — Coinbase

Coinbase rearchitected its compute by migrating to Karpenter for faster, more reliable scaling.

References

Videos

  1. Real-World Knative: Success Stories from Production Environments... (CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]), cited at 16:46