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Thursday, May 23 • 14:50 - 15:25
Where's My Pod, Already? A Tale of Cold-Start Struggles on Kubernetes - Gregory Haynes, IBM

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A core component of serverless platforms is scale-to-zero functionality which provides users with near 0 application cost when idle. With this comes the dreaded cold-start problem: When a user's application is not in use for an extended period an activating request can take significantly longer to complete. Knative is no different in this respect and until recently our cold-start time was measured in seconds due to the cost of Kubernetes deployments. Recently, a large effort was undertaken to improve this delay and the result is a system which scales Kubernetes deployments up from 0 in nearly a second. We will dive deep into what actually goes on inside Kubernetes when a deployment is scaled up, how we determined where time is spent, and then some of our novel techniques to drastically speed up this process.

Speakers
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Greg Haynes

Software Architect, Autodesk
Greg is a Software Architect at Autodesk focused on developer platform services and also chairs Autodesk’s open source program. He’s contributed to many open source cloud technologies in the past, such as Knative, Kubernetes’ sig-scheduling, and several OpenStack projects.


Thursday May 23, 2019 14:50 - 15:25 CEST
Hall 8.0 F5