Why we switched to serverless containers

Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

Last September, at the 🇨🇭 Swiss Cloud Native Day, Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of ZITADEL, talked about why they switched to serverless containers. ZITADEL has a really interesting workload that is both CPU intensive and latency sensitive. On top of this, their users are global, and traffic is bursty. Florian talks about how they evaluated AWS, GCP & Azure before they settled on the platform that met their requirements.

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Show Notes:

• 🎬 Why We Switched to Serverless Containers - Swiss Cloud Native Day, September 2022
• 🎬 What is the fuzz around serverless (containers)? - Open Source @ Siemens, May 2022
• 🔬 Self-host ZITADEL on Knative
• 🐙 github.com/zitadel/zitadel

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Bölümler

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Florian Forster (00:01:14)

3. The Kubernetes dance (00:05:02)

4. "Person for everything no one else takes care of" (00:07:49)

5. Zitadel (00:09:11)

6. Double-dip traffic (00:12:43)

7. Zitadel's tech stack (00:15:27)

8. Terraform (00:18:04)

9. Sponsor: The Changelog (00:19:18)

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10. For the cloud service? (00:21:03)

11. Why Cloud Run? (00:28:39)

12. Pops and regions (00:33:14)

13. What's the CDN like? (00:38:49)

14. Zitadel's price model (00:40:31)

15. Zitadel Cloud (00:43:40)

16. The "Oh f**k" moments (00:48:28)

17. How to know there's a problem (00:52:02)

18. Florian's 2023 (00:54:27)

19. Upcoming for the cloud (00:58:31)

20. Florian's one key take away (01:02:08)

21. Wrap up (01:07:06)

22. Outro (01:07:29)