Scout24 is focused on optimizing its containerized applications hosted on AWS, aiming to enhance the experience for product engineers and customers. The document outlines challenges such as CPU consumption and latency issues, while emphasizing the need for resource categorization and the next steps in evaluating Kubernetes. It presents a vision for scaling their infrastructure while addressing the current limitations faced.

1. www.scout24.com
Scale to Infinity with ECS
Berlin | 2018 | Christine Trahe, Cloud Platform Engineering

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Overview

3. Who are Scout24?
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Containerized
Applcations
Hosted on AWS

5. Platform Engineering, Scout24
Enabling product engineers to focus on devliering value
to Scout24 consumers and customers.

6. What does an application need?
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7. Platform Vision
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8. Running at Scale

9. Multi-Account Strategy
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10. Keeping it simple
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Custom resource
Basic configuration
Mandatory Tagging

11. Shared compute resources
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12. Centralized compute infrastructure
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13. Logging and Monitoring
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14. Overview
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15. Problems we faced

16. But it doesn‘t scale to Infinity just yet…
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Too much CPU consumption
on the container instances
Load Balancer response time (latency)
increases, causing real time customer impact

17. Sharing resources not ideal…
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18. Categorizing Services

19. Application differences
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20. Categorizing Services to their needs
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21. Outcome
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CPU Hard Limit
• Latency sensitive run more reliably
• Not burstable above reservation à
Faster scaling on lower threshold
CPU Burst Ability
• Cannot rely on getting the
CPU needed.
• Consider hard limit as
• Right-size containers

22. Next Steps

23. Evaluating EKS/K8S
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• Tools/solutions/support with a huge community
• More than a container orchestrator, but an ecosystem

24. Christine Trahe
October, 2018 | Cloud Platform Engineering, Scout24
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