Nic Vermande
Nic is an experienced hands-on technologist, evangelist and product owner who has been working in the fields of Cloud-Native technologies, Open Source Software, Virtualization and Datacenter networking for the past 20 years.
Passionate about enabling users and building cool tech solving real-life problems, you'll often see him speaking at global tech conferences and online events, spreading the word and walking the walk with customers and users.
Session
Your autoscalers are fighting. HPA scales out, VPA scales up, and KEDA drains the queue, a constant war that thrashes resources and kills stability. We will stop the fight, using unified observability and custom business metrics to turn that chaos into a coordinated orchestra, making your system stable, efficient, and finally, intelligent.
This will not be a theoretical talk. We will do this live, with a real Rube Goldberg meme-generator application deployed on a Kubernetes cluster. We will unleash a load test that deliberately creates scaling conflicts, then watch the Grafana dashboards that prove the chaos. Finally, with our unified observability in place, we will run the same test and watch on-screen as HPA, VPA, and KEDA move in perfect concert, adapting to the load gracefully, and proving that the fight is over.