3 articles tagged with ""scaling""
Still SSHing into your cluster at 2 AM to scale up pods during traffic spikes? After getting paged one too many times, I set up Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling — and now my cluster handles Black Friday traffic while I sleep like a baby.
Your app gets a traffic spike, your pods fall over, and you're frantically SSH-ing into servers at 3 AM. After painful on-call incidents, I learned that Kubernetes HPA can auto-scale your pods in under 30 seconds - here's how to set it up properly!
Think your Node.js server is using all 8 CPU cores? Think again! By default, Node.js runs on ONE core while the other 7 watch Netflix. Let's fix that with cluster mode - the built-in feature that turns your server into a multi-core beast!