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Performance: case studies over time

14 case studies across 12 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "performance"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: Baidu, Chronosphere, Enterprise, Google, Hitachi, PingCAP, Red Hat, eBay

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)

Load Testing Kubernetes: How to Optimize Your Cluster Resource Allocation in Production

Shows how load testing Kubernetes can be used to tune cluster resource allocation in production.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)

Automated Kubernetes Scalability Testing - Sebastian Jug & Naga Ravi Chaitanya Elluri, Red Hat — Red Hat

Red Hat engineers present how they automated Kubernetes scalability testing in their own testing process.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2019 (San Diego)

Improving Performance of Deep Learning Workloads With Volcano - Ti Zhou, Baidu Inc — Baidu

Baidu shows how Volcano improved performance of its deep learning workloads.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual

Speed Racer: Local Persistent Volumes in Production - Matt Schallert, Chronosphere — Chronosphere

Chronosphere shares its experience running local persistent volumes in production for performance.

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2020 - Virtual

High Performance Networking for Distributed DL Training in Production K8s - Nivedita Viswanath

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021

How We Reduced Write Latency in TiKV? - Liqi Geng, PingCAP — PingCAP

PingCAP explains how it reduced write latency in its own TiKV storage engine.

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022

Accelerating High-Performance Machine Learning at Scale i... Alejandro Saucedo & Elena Neroslavskaya

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023

Hazardous Defaults: Managing Cardinality and Performance for Your Lo... Derek Cavanaugh & Sara Moore

Discusses managing cardinality and performance pitfalls from hazardous defaults in logging and observability setups.

Continuous Profiling Your Production Kubernetes Deployments Running a... Vijay Samuel & Nick Pordash — eBay

Describes how continuous profiling was run on production Kubernetes deployments at scale.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023

Challenge to Implementing “Scalable” Authorization with Keycloak - Yoshiyuki Tabata, Hitachi, Ltd. — Hitachi

Hitachi describes the challenges it faced implementing scalable authorization with Keycloak.

2024 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024 - Salt Lake City

From Observability to Performance - Nadia Pinaeva, Red Hat & Antonio Ojea, Google — Red Hat, Google

Operationalizing High-Performance GPU Clusters in Kubernetes: Lessons Learned fr... W. Gleich, W. Wu

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 - London

From High Performance Computing To AI Workloads on Kubernetes: M... Andrey Velichkevich, & Yuki Iwai

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026