Battle of Black Friday - Proactively Autoscaling StockX

Explore advanced autoscaling strategies for Kubernetes in this conference talk from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021. Discover how StockX evolved from manual responses to traffic spikes to implementing reactive and proactive autoscaling solutions. Learn about the challenges of managing autoscaling at scale, educating growing teams, and balancing e-commerce marketing events with infrastructure reliability. Gain insights into tools like HorizontalPodAutoscaler and Cluster-Autoscaler, and hear about an open-source tool developed by StockX for proactive autoscaling efforts. Understand the journey from brownouts and customer experience issues to a robust, scalable Kubernetes infrastructure capable of handling high-traffic events like Black Friday.

Intro
StockX Overview
The Problem
The Problems
Reactive Scaling
Proactive Autoscaling
Warming System
Takeaways
Outro