How it all started Directeam CEO, Hagai Tobelem, first heard of Spot back in early 2016 when he was a potential customer himself. As he was responsible for his company’s cloud infrastructure, he was working on real-time applications characterized by spiky workloads and was searching for a way to reduce costs, while supporting the company’s […]

The Challenge When organizations are running their workloads on the cloud, they will begin to realize that controlling costs is crucial as workloads and infrastructure scale. While scaling is important, it does add a few complexities such as scheduling workloads across compute resources properly and downscaling to use only the resources that you need. These […]

The Data Place Seek Optimization for Google Cloud Workloads The Data Place development team has always been focused on using the infrastructure best tailored to their individual needs, but are particularly aware that optimizing infrastructure is a pivotal part of their business strategy. For their business, the team decided to use Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) […]

As Petlove’s Google Cloud compute spend increased, GKE became the main target for optimization Petlove’s compute usage spans both AWS and Google Cloud, the company adopting a multi-cloud strategy to ensure that their environments and workloads are always running in the most suitable cloud. However, this meant that cost reduction strategies would have to incorporate […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Leveraging spot in Dev, but what about Production? Demandbase, as a fast-growing company with many new features and product releases, always had an eye on their costs. “Our team knew that cloud costs could quickly get out of hand,” said Josh Schlanger, VP of DevOps at Demandbase. As part of their cost optimization efforts, Schlanger and […]

Ticketmaster Accelerates AWS Adoption While Significantly Reducing Costs With Spot Ticketmaster is a leading ticket sales and distribution company located in California that sells millions of tickets for a wide variety of events all around the world. In 2017, they publicly announced their migration to Amazon Web Services to be able to quickly scale their […]