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
Tinder’s move to Kubernetes
Tinder’s move to Kubernetes Written By: Chris O’Brien, Engineering Manager |Chris Thomas, Engineering Manager| Jinyong Lee, Senior Software Engineer | Edited By: Cooper Jackson, Software Engineer Why Almost two years ago, Tinder decided to move its platform to Kubernetes. Kubernetes afforded us an opportunity to drive Tinder Engineering toward containerization and low-touch operation through immutable deployment. Application build, deployment, and …. Read More
The New York Times: From Print to the Web to Cloud Native
The New York Times: From Print to the Web to Cloud Native Challenge When the company decided a few years ago to move out of its data centers, its first deployments on the public cloud were smaller, less critical applications managed on virtual machines. “We started building more and more tools, and at some point …. Read More
How big companies are using Kubernetes
How big companies are using Kubernetes Kubernetes’ increased adoption is showcased by a number of influential companies which have integrated the technology into their services. Let us take a look at how some of the biggest companies of our time are successfully using Kubernetes. The Docker adoption is still growing exponentially, more and more companies …. Read More
