How Spotify Recreated Its Entire Backend Without Downtime

Discover how Spotify engineers successfully recreated their entire Kubernetes backend infrastructure without causing service interruptions in this 42-minute conference talk from CNCF. Learn about the massive undertaking of migrating half a million pods across tens of thousands of nodes while maintaining zero downtime for over half a billion listeners. Explore the journey from inception to execution, including the motivations, principles, and obstacles encountered during the process. Gain insights into key architecture features and limitations that shaped the migration effort, and understand the automation and tooling strategies employed to orchestrate this complex task in a live production environment. Acquire valuable knowledge applicable to future cluster recreations and large-scale infrastructure migrations in your own organization.

How Spotify Re-Created Our Entire Backend Without Skipping a Beat