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GKE Native Support for Custom Metrics: Smarter Autoscaling Beyond CPU and Memory
By Chimbu ChinnaduraiMar 19, 20265 min read

GKE Native Support for Custom Metrics: Smarter Autoscaling Beyond CPU and Memory

Modern cloud-native applications rarely scale perfectly using CPU or memory metrics alone. Many workloads are driven by signals like…

How to Optimize Kubernetes Costs
By DoiTMay 16, 20259 min read

How to Optimize Kubernetes Costs

Learn proven Kubernetes cost optimization strategies and tools that finance leaders can use to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and control cloud spending.

Kubernetes Fine-Grained Horizontal Pod Autoscaling with Container Resource Metrics
By Chimbu ChinnaduraiMay 2, 20244 min read

Kubernetes Fine-Grained Horizontal Pod Autoscaling with Container Resource Metrics

Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) has revolutionized how we manage workloads by automatically scaling deployments/statefulset pods…

Kubernetes custom metric autoscaling: almost great
By Christopher McGrathNov 10, 20235 min read

Kubernetes custom metric autoscaling: almost great

Custom metrics tend to be more accurate and useful than CPU- and RAM-based autoscaling, but could use improvement. Here's how to make it better.

Event-Driven Autoscaling in Kubernetes: Harnessing the Power of KEDA
By Chimbu ChinnaduraiJun 26, 20236 min read

Event-Driven Autoscaling in Kubernetes: Harnessing the Power of KEDA

How to use KEDA event driven approach to autoscale production kubernetes clusters.

The BigQuery Autoscaling Public Preview Rundown (DoiT Edition)
By Sayle MatthewsApr 4, 202311 min read

The BigQuery Autoscaling Public Preview Rundown (DoiT Edition)

Author’s note: Google announced on March 29, 2023 that they are rolling out a completely new billing model for BigQuery that includes, and…

Autoscaling K8s HPA with Google HTTP/S Load-Balancer RPS EXTERNAL Stackdriver Metrics
By Eran ChetzroniNov 5, 20185 min read

Autoscaling K8s HPA with Google HTTP/S Load-Balancer RPS EXTERNAL Stackdriver Metrics

Most of the time, we scale our Kubernetes deployments based on metrics such as CPU or memory consumption, but sometimes we need to scale based on external metrics. In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of setting up Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) autoscaling using any Stackdriver metric; specifically we’ll use the Request Per Second from a Google Cloud HTTP/S Load Balancer.

Autoscaling Google Dataproc Clusters
By Aviv LauferFeb 5, 20186 min read

Autoscaling Google Dataproc Clusters

Cloud Dataproc is an amazingly fast to provision, easy-to-use, fully-managed cloud service for running Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop clusters in a simple and very cost-efficient way.