Deepak Goel
Software Engineer, The New York Times
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Deepak Goel is a Software Engineer at The New York Times, where he started his career as an intern. He works with Cloud Infrastructure and is currently working on a multi tenant Kubernetes cluster. Outside of work, he loves to spend as much time as possible outside primarily skiing and hiking.
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Rapidly Scaling for Breaking News with Karpenter and KEDA
Scaling is hard, but have you ever tried scaling for breaking news? Whether for a hot headline or the latest crossword, The New York Times may need to double the number of nodes in our Kubernetes clusters in under two minutes. Traffic spikes from breaking news alerts occur without warning, last only a few minutes, and at their peak serve more than 100k requests per second.
In this talk, we’ll explore how The New York Times multi-tenant EKS clusters scale using Karpenter and KEDA, taking into account that traffic to our unified HTTP ingress is oftentimes the biggest bottleneck. We’ll discuss the design decisions we made while considering flexibility, maintainability, and cost savings.
From Intern to DevOps Engineer: Lessons Learned in My First Two Years
I quickly learned that my Computer Science degree barely prepared me for a career in DevOps. As an intern at The New York Times, I joined the Cloud Infrastructure team and was thrown into the deep end. I had used AWS before to deploy a simple app in a class, but I had yet to learn how these deployments happened at the scale of a company like the New York Times.
Although my degree did teach me technical problem-solving and continuous learning, I initially felt separated from the traditional coding work I had done throughout college. Despite this, I’ve learned to love DevOps and the large-scale problems DevOps presents. I’ve learned that expertise is not required for success but a willingness to tackle various technical challenges and the ability to learn from them.
In this talk, I will share my journey from intern to DevOps engineer and the lessons I’ve learned. I’ll discuss how I approach technical problems with limited background knowledge and how I’ve gone from fearing these tasks to seeking them out.
Additionally, I’ll also share the countless non-technical skills I’ve gained from DevOps from working with both partner DevOps teams and internal “customers” on a daily basis.
Deepak Goel
Software Engineer, The New York Times
Seattle, Washington, United States
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