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 18 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.
Head of developer relations at Otterize
Session
Cloud technology offers rapid resource adjustment, but implementing this in Kubernetes can be complex. As the go-to cloud OS, Kubernetes offers multiple scaling options, leaving many perplexed about how to choose and configure them.
In this talk, Nic will introduce key auto-scaling technologies like Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA), Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA), and Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling (KEDA), showing their approaches to scaling. He will then demonstrate configuring different components—stateless containers, databases, and serverless functions—for auto-scaling.
Finally, Nic will explain how to measure auto-scaling effectiveness using metrics like throughput and latency. Attendees will leave with practical insights on using Kubernetes auto-scaling to optimize costs and maintain high performance in cloud applications.