About Lacework Founded in 2014, San-Jose based Lacework provides security and compliance for the cloud, leveraging machine learning to automate vulnerability detection and threat identification for ongoing cloud security. Lacework’s ingestion and analysis of vast amounts of security log and activity data runs on Kubernetes clusters in AWS. Without meticulous and time-consuming DevOps management these […]

The challenge of cutting costs as an enterprise B2W’s DevOps team is responsible for managing dozens of sites and mobile applications across many environments. With over 200M monthly visitors to their catalog of sites, B2W cannot afford any risk of downtime. In the past, they’ve looked to find various ways to reduce their cloud costs. […]

Seasonality makes Kubernetes Autoscaling a Necessity for Student.com Student.com had recently restructured to use Kubernetes when they first started looking into using AWS Spot Instances to boost cost optimization. The nature of the business (students predominantly looking for accommodation during the months running up to new terms) meant that seasonal spikes in usage were high. […]

In this case study, we would like to share how PubNative has managed to lower their AWS infrastructure costs while improving performance and increasing their applications’ availability using Elastigroup by Spot. The Challenge PubNative’s clients are dispersed globally and need real-time data analytics. This requires complex orchestration across multiple AWS regions and accounts. Over time, […]

Wiser, based in San Francisco, California, is a leading company in the retailing sector, providing its customers with specialized data mining services, leveraging image recognition, analytics and insights about competitors. Wiser relies on AWS to run its designated crawling workers, and to run data mining processes, data transformations, and analytics for its clients. At Wiser, […]

Based in Stockholm, Sweden, [24]7 Predictive Search Bidding (formerly known as Campanja) provides a predictive bidding engine for online advertising allowing their customers to maximize each dollar spent on search advertising (Google AdWords and Bing Ads). [24]7 Predictive Bidding utilizes Real Time Tracking, Predictive Modelling, and High-Frequency Bidding to harness the power of online advertising […]

AWS Migration was time-consuming and potentially expensive In early 2017, SimilarWeb was faced with the task of migrating a massive on-prem system onto the cloud. Migrations are never going to be easy, but with many data-heavy workloads and various product needs to account for, the complexity of this task was overwhelming. It also can be […]

The Challenge One of our motorsports strategy products requires a lot of horsepower during ‘race day’. Every weekend we need approximately an additional 16 cores and 32GB of memory above what is required during the rest of the week. Initially, we solved this by purchasing machines with specs that were able to handle the peak […]

Leveraging spot instances with other tools was challenging Postman’s VP of Engineering Shamasis Bhattacharya wanted to find ways to cut their rising cloud costs and viewed spot instances as an essential ingredient to doing so. But as a platform supporting nearly 5 million API developers, Postman needs their AWS environment to remain reliable. “As it […]

Cost Optimization is a priority, but time and complex architecture prove limiting ClearCare was founded in 2010, growing steadily over the course of the past seven years. After a $60M growth equity round of funding in 2016, usage spiked quickly. As a health-tech company, reliability is essential to their customers, so their DevOps team focused […]