Embedding FinOps into our Wehkamp Retail Group development culture has led to substantial cost savings and more cost awareness. While we keep running a scalable and stable platform. All to give our customers a pleasant and smooth journey when shopping in our webshops.
Read the article Wehkamp TechHub Journey towards cost optimization on AWS
Anneke Keller (CTO), Koen Roumen (Head of Platfom) and me did a talk on DevOpsDays Eindhoven 2022: A true story on how we learned how to handle the immense web traffic caused by a successful influencer campaign. How we built a platform with Karpenter and Keda for rapid and massive auto-scaling and the effects this had on our platform.
Read the article DevOps Days Eindhoven Talk: How To Handle The Immense Traffic of a Successful Influencer Campaign
Chris Vahl (Cloud Engineer) and me did a talk on Full Stack Live #2 (Orange Talent: At Wehkamp we did a very successful influencer campaign, but it didn’t go well for our website. In this session we discuss what happened and how we mitigated our problems. We also show how we want to move forward using Kubernetes, Karpenter and Keda, to create a platform that scales better. This session is in Dutch.
Read the article Full Stack Live Meetup: How to handle the immense web traffic caused by a successful influencer campaign? (Dutch)