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

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

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 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 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