Scaling: case studies over time¶

43 case studies across 23 events, oldest first. Generated by wiki find "scaling"; each moment links to where the talk discusses it.

Organizations: AWS, Activision, Activision/Blizzard, Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg, CERN, Capital One, China, Coinbase, Comcast, Fluent Bit, Gojek, HashiCorp, Huawei, Hyperspeed, Hyundai, Intuit, Lyft, Minecraft community, Nutanix, Onefootball, Peloton, PepsiCo, Skyscanner, Spotify, T-Mobile, WP Engine, Wolt, XL

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2017 (Berlin)¶

Scaling Organizations Using Kubernetes [I] - Richard Fliam, Comcast VIPER — Comcast¶

Comcast VIPER shares lessons and mistakes from scaling its engineering organization and microservices with Kubernetes.

▶ 0:44 a really successful organization we all face a problem scaling software is hard and communities helps a scale software scaling organizations is actually harder …
▶ 4:24 … stack rely on each other subtle changes in the scaling of our operate scaling or operations of our AP is mean outages only the …
▶ 12:32 … are not just about scaling our software they're about scaling ourselves scaling the output of our work and scaling ourselves isn't about …
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Scale Kubernetes to Support 50,000 Services [I] - Haibin Xie & Quinton Hoole — Huawei¶

Huawei describes scaling Kubernetes to support 50,000 services and the changes required.

2017 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2017 (Austin)¶

Scaling to 5000+ Unique K8s Deployments, How We Did It [I] - Nicole Hubbard, WP Engine — WP Engine¶

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2018 (Shanghai)¶

From Containerized Application to Secure and Scaling W/ Kubernetes - Shikha Srivastava & Erica Brown ¶

Kubernetes on Supporting 1 Million Bike-Taxi Drivers in Indonesia - Giri Kuncoro & Iqbal Farabi — Gojek¶

Gojek describes running Kubernetes to support one million bike-taxi drivers in Indonesia.

2018 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 (Seattle)¶

Instrumenting and Scaling Cloud-Native Databases with Envoy - Daniel Hochman, Lyft — Lyft¶

Lyft shows how it uses Envoy to instrument and scale its cloud-native databases.

How T-Mobile Built and Scaled Kubernetes On-Prem for the 2018 Retail Season - James Webb, T-Mobile — T-Mobile¶

T-Mobile describes building and scaling its own on-prem Kubernetes platform to handle the 2018 retail season.

2019 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019 (Barcelona)¶

Scaling Edge Operations at Onefootball with Ambassador: From 0 to 6000 rps - Jonathan Juares Beber — Onefootball¶

Onefootball scaled its edge operations with Ambassador from zero to 6000 requests per second.

Scaling and Securing Spark on Kubernetes at Bloomberg - Ilan Filonenko, Bloomberg — Bloomberg¶

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

Scaling Resilient Systems: A Journey into Slack's Database Service - Rafael Chacon & Guido Iaquinti ¶

2020 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 - Virtual¶

Scaling Prometheus: How We Got Some Thanos Into Cortex - Thor Hansen, HashiCorp & Marco Pracucci — HashiCorp¶

SpoK - Running Big Data Applications @ Scale on K8s - Srivathsan Canchi & Nagaraj Janardhana, Intuit — Intuit¶

Intuit describes running big data Spark applications at scale on Kubernetes with its SpoK platform.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2021¶

How Cloud Native Tech Helped Peloton Ride to Exponential Growth - Jim Haughwout, VP, Peloton — Peloton¶

Peloton explains how cloud native technology helped it scale through exponential growth.

CERN's 1500 Drupal Websites on Kubernetes: Sa... Konstantinos Samaras-Tsakiris & Rajula Vineet Reddy — CERN¶

CERN describes running its 1500 Drupal websites on Kubernetes and the lessons from doing so.

2021 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021¶

Scaling Kubeflow for Multi-tenancy at Spotify - Keshi Dai & Jonathan Jin, Spotify — Spotify¶

2022 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2022¶

Scaling Open Source ML: How Wolt Uses K8s To Deliver Great Food to Mill... Stephen Batifol & Ed Shee — Wolt¶

Wolt explains how it uses Kubernetes and open source tools to scale ML for food delivery.

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 Europe 2023¶

Scaling Databases at Activision - Greg Smith & Vladimir Kovacik, Activision/Blizzard — Activision, Activision/Blizzard¶

Operating CERN SaaS at Scale with Operators — CERN¶

CERN describes operating its SaaS offerings at scale using Kubernetes operators.

2023 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2023¶

Building, Scaling, and Growing Internal Developer Platfor... Joshua Bezaleel Abednego & Giri Kuncoro ¶

Speakers describe building, scaling and growing their own internal developer platform.

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.

15,000 Minecraft Players Vs One K8s Cluster. Who Wins? - Justin Head & Cornelia Davis — Minecraft community¶

Tests how a single Kubernetes cluster holds up under 15,000 Minecraft players.

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

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

▶ 0:43 … to use URL with autot TLS and also provide you Auto scaling Based On Demand with Infamous scale back to zero and that makes …
▶ 2:12 … provides a very simplified deployment for them and it handles the scaling the Ingress everything all inone you can set this up and we …
▶ 3:40 … little heavy weight for our usage and we've seen better scaling of Courier um that was something that kind of came through you …
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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 Private LLM Model Services with Kserve and Modelcar OCI: A Real-World... - Mayuresh Krishna ¶

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

2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2025¶

Scaling AI Like a Pro-PepsiCo’s LLM Deployment Strategy on K... Praseed Naduvath & Dhanashree Shetty — PepsiCo¶

PepsiCo describes its strategy for deploying and scaling LLMs on Kubernetes.

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.

One Dozen To One Thousand Clusters: How Argo Kept up as We Scaled - Jérémy Albuixech & Kahou Lei ¶

Speakers describe how their Argo CD setup scaled from a dozen to a thousand clusters.

2026 · Keynotes - KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026¶

Out of the Box, at Multi-Region Scale: How Hyundai Scales Its Platform - Jaewoo Choi, Hyundai — Hyundai¶

Hyundai describes how it scales its platform across multiple regions.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026¶

Scaling Digital Employees at China Merchants Bank in Production: A Controlled AI... Jiahang Xu — China¶

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026¶

Scaling Platform Engineering: Lessons From Europe’s Larges... Cat M, Stéphane C, Anna K & Gayathri T ¶

Practitioners from one of Europe's largest organizations share lessons from scaling platform engineering.

Scaling Valkey the Right Way: Kubernetes at XL Scale - Sarthak Aggarwal & Madelyn Olson, AWS — XL, AWS¶

From NLB Sprawl To Mesh Efficiency: How Skyscanner Handles 60M Reque... John Clark & Steven Thwaites — Skyscanner¶

Skyscanner describes moving from NLB sprawl to a mesh to handle 60M requests efficiently.

What Survived Production: Operating Game Backends at Million-Player Scale - Berkay Uckac ¶

Reports lessons on what survived in production when operating game backends at million-player scale.

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon India 2026¶

Why We Ditched Kube-proxy: Scaling 10M Daily Browser Sessions With Kubernetes Endpoi... Rajat Khanna ¶

KServe in Production: Scaling Generative Inference the Cloud Native Way - Johnu George, Nutanix — Nutanix¶

2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026¶

Don't Start With 500 Clusters: Patterns in Scaling Multi-Cluster Kubernetes… N. Bora & M. Morrison ¶

Speakers share patterns and lessons from scaling multi-cluster Kubernetes with Cluster API, arguing against starting with hundreds of clusters.

▶ 0:00 … We'll be talking about patterns in scaling multi-cluster Kubernetes using cluster API. >> So the the idea for this talk started literally like …
▶ 1:26 cluster scaling ceiling then there's probably a your first indicator. A single Kubernetes cluster can scale to 5,000 nodes and 150,000 …
▶ 2:10 … Don't try and solve organizational problems by scaling out your infrastructure. All you're really doing is copying your problems to multitudes of …
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From Experiment To Enterprise: Scaling an AI Agent for Code Review - Adam Phan ¶

Describes taking an AI code review agent from experiment to enterprise-scale use.

Lessons From Five+ Years of Fluent Bit: Building a Global-Scale Observability Agent - Hiroshi Hatake — Fluent Bit¶

Hiroshi Hatake shares lessons from more than five years of building and operating Fluent Bit as a global-scale observability agent.

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