Increasing power consumption is a problem

Over the past few years, edge computing, which places computation and data storage closer to the devices where it is being gathered, has become more prevalent due to the widespread adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT). Edge computing using 5G networks may reduce communication [...]

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Facing the unexpected pandemic

On December 20, 2021, the Japanese government released a digital vaccination certificate app for its residents, making it available on both Android and iPhone. Storing their vaccination data, citizens can use the software for confirming inoculation status—by generating QR codes when entering restaurants or events, as well [...]

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Safely reopening amid the pandemic

The Archeological Park of Pompeii in Italy is one of the world’s most visited tourist destinations averaging over 2.5 million tourists annually. In 2019, the park welcomed over 3.8 million tourists. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and the government-mandated lockdowns began, Pompeii, like many other tourist [...]

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Expanding to green and renewable energy

In 2015 at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, 195 countries signed the Paris Accords, an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. The accord’s long-term goal is to limit the rise of global temperature below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels and eventually reach [...]

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The need for a flexible platform

Founded in 1949 after spinning off Toyota, Denso has grown to become one of the world’s largest suppliers of automotive components and spare parts. With the global connected car market projected to reach $166 billion by 2025, the company branched out into software development by [...]

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Migrating to Kubernetes

Founded in 2006, Spotify has grown into the world’s largest music streaming service provider with more than 365 million active users per month. As an early adopter of microservices and Docker, the company had containerized microservices running across a fleet of virtual machines in 2014. To streamline container [...]

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The need for automation

Since 2013, GitLab followed a release cycle where monthly releases were deployed on the 22nd. To help facilitate this cycle, a rotating release manager role was assigned to one of the developers. The release manager would then be responsible for several manual tasks, such as tagging release [...]

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Reaching feature parity on Kubernetes

In 2015, Adobe began Ethos, a project to consolidate infrastructure and software development best practices in the company. The project started with the adoption of Docker containers built on top of Apache Mesos. This led to the first containerized production services of Adobe.

Needing to scale up, [...]

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The need for horizontal scaling

Airbnb is one of the largest online marketplaces for lodging. Founded in 2007, the platform currently has more than 5.5 million listings across more than 100,000 cities and 220 countries.

Initially, a small team of engineers at Airbnb ran a Ruby on Rails monolith, which they called [...]

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Scaling too fast

Lyft is one of the largest ridesharing companies in the US, operating in all 50 states, as well as in Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company reported a total revenue of $2.3 billion in 2020.

A few years after its founding in 2012, Lyft had [...]

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