Reliable/Cheap: Pick Any Two? - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
In this talk, Guy Templeton will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 10,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
Combating Fraud and Providing Customer Insights In Real Time - Matt Houghton, CDL
Learn how CDL, a software provider for the retail insurance sector, processes vast amounts of consumer data in milliseconds using machine learning, AI and big data in order to help the UK's biggest insurance providers combat fraud, learn consumer habits, and more.
The talk will cover how we tried and failed to build a solution, called Hummingbird,...
Reliable/Cheap: Pick Any Two? - Running Production K8s on AWS Spot Instances
In this talk, Guy Templeton will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 10,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
Combating Fraud and Providing Customer Insights In Real Time - Matt Houghton, CDL
Learn how CDL, a software provider for the retail insurance sector, processes vast amounts of consumer data in milliseconds using machine learning, AI and big data in order to help the UK's biggest insurance providers combat fraud, learn consumer habits, and more.
The talk will cover how we tried and failed to build a solution, called Hummingbird,...