#68 - Surviving Black Friday

In this episode, we bring you two special guests, Guilherme Valle and Marcos Antônio Moraes, both directly involved in the Black Friday operations at B2W/americanas sa, one of the largest digital commerce companies in Brazil. Considering the importance of this date for retail and the spike in consumption during the period, organizing technology resources for a Black Friday must start practically a year before it happens. Listen to the program to learn about the path the company took to migrate its first applications to microservices, adopt Kubernetes, and today have a team of over a thousand people working on administering 90 clusters, 1,300 APIs, 16 billion requests, and 150 deploys per day. Check below for our guests' RECOMMENDATION for Black Friday: “If you haven't prepared for the 2021 Black Friday, run and start planning next year's!” Kubicast is produced by Getup, a company specialized in Kubernetes and supporter of the UnDistro project.  #Kubernetes #DevOps  #docker #Containers #BlackFriday Kubicast is produced by Getup, the only Brazilian company 100% focused on and specialized in Kubernetes. All episodes of the podcast are available on the Getup website and on major digital audio platforms. Some of them are recorded on YT.