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by Seth Dobson — Principal Cloud Architect II, John Roach — Principal Cloud Architect IWe have been working with Kubernetes regularly since 2017, and in that time, we have migrated countless applications to the cloud leveraging Kubernetes as the back-end container orchestration platform. Some of those migrations hav...

By Ilay Chen and Tomer AkiravAt PayPal, hundreds of thousands of Apache Spark jobs run on an hourly basis, processing petabytes of data and requiring a high volume of resources. To handle the growth of machine learning solutions, PayPal requires scalable environments, cost awareness and constant innovation. This blo...

Early on at Urb-it, before I joined, we decided to use Kubernetes as a cornerstone for our cloud-native strategy. The thinking behind this choice was our anticipated rapid scaling, coupled with the desire to leverage container orchestration capabilities to get a more dynamic, resilient, and efficient environment for...

IBM mainframes were the original onsite private cloud. Racks of integrated compute and storage running a bespoke software stack that are installed onsite. Customers liked them because they offered an integrated solution which offered pay as you go elastic scaling. They were overprovisioned and a call to IBM would un...

Adrian Cockcroft, Richard McDougall, Allan Packer and Brian Wong. Los Altos CA, mid-1990’s — Photo by AdrianI spent six years at Cambridge Consultants, building some interesting systems, managing our Sun workstations and learning a lot, but by then Sun had opened a sales office across the street, and I wanted to fin...