This article will summarize a talk given by Suresh Visvanathan & Mrunmayi Dhume of Verizon Media at KubeCon San Diego 2019. If the video recording of the presentation is posted, I will link it here directly in the article so you can follow along.

Yahoo! has more than 18 production grade Kubernetes clusters; Visvanathan’s team operates one that has more than 150,000 containers, 500 applications, and 1,000,000 requests per second.

Their most mission-critical applications, such as Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, and Yahoo! Home, are deployed and enabled by Kubernetes and Istio platforms.

The talk covered how the teams worked on modernizing their platform to a microservices architecture. Among their goals were: