How to Stop Kubenetes From DOSing Your Application During Deployment

A deeper look at K8s deployments

Harry Martland
Better Programming
Published in
4 min readMar 11, 2020

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Graphs can be scary without the right context. The graph above shows the number of requests per second being sent to Pods for a particular application.

The scary bit is that this application should only be receiving around 120 requests per second. The red line maxes…

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Principal Software Engineer at Booking.com — Transport, writing mainly about observability, reliability and building applications ‘well’