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Scale Smarter Not Harder: How Extending Cluster Autoscaler Saves Millions - Rahul Rangith & Ben Hinthorne, Datadog
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
“I need 100 instances with 32 CPUs and 128GB of memory each, with remote storage and up to 10GB/s of network bandwidth, and I need them now”! At Datadog, we make scaling requests like this thousands of times a day, across dozens of clusters in multiple cloud providers. At this scale, and with so many machine specifications to choose from, we realized the importance of asking the question: how do I select the best instance type in every environment?
Join us to learn how answering this question with every scale up decision significantly reduces our cloud costs. We’ll discuss the tools we use to score instance types, and strategies to plug these recommendations into the Kubernetes Cluster Autoscaler via its gRPC expander. Whether you’re operating a single cluster or a massive Kubernetes platform, this talk will teach you how to upgrade your infrastructure to make informed instance type selections that minimize your cloud spend.
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Rahul Rangith

Software Engineer, Datadog
Rahul Rangith has worked at Datadog since 2022 after graduating from the University of Waterloo. He works on Datadog’s Compute team which is responsible for the company’s Kubernetes platform. On the team, he focuses on node management and autoscaling. Rahul is active in the Kubernetes... Read More →
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Ben Hinthorne

Software Engineer, Datadog
Ben Hinthorne joined Datadog’s Compute Team in 2021, which is responsible for building and scaling their Kubernetes platform. Recently, he has focused on the autoscaling ecosystem, working to optimize application performance, infrastructure cost, and resiliency through opinionated... Read More →
Wednesday April 2, 2025 17:45 - 18:15 BST
Level 0 | ICC Capital Hall | Room 2
  Platform Engineering

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