GKE’s leading lights
One of the earliest GKE customers was Signify, a global leader in lighting for professionals and the company behind Philips Hue. Ten years on, it continues to thrive on the service. Growing from 200 million to 3.5 billion daily transactions, Signify scaled from one GKE cluster to seven, and is looking to leverage GKE for new workloads, including platform engineering and AI for multi-cluster supervision.
“The constant improvements made by GKE over the past 10 years profoundly changed the way we design, deploy, and evolve our services,” says Leon Bouwmeester, Director of Engineering and Head of Hue Platform at Signify. “We spend less time on infrastructure management and can focus our efforts on what really matters: the quality of the user experience and the speed of innovation.”
However, what put GKE on the map was Pokémon GO, Niantic’s ground-breaking geolocation game. As millions took to the streets to catch ‘em all, GKE brought to life and kept up with its explosive launch. “Never have I taken part in anything close to the growth that Google Cloud customer Niantic experienced with the launch of Pokémon GO,” says Luke Stone, director of customer reliability engineering at Google Cloud.
Source Credit: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/10-years-of-gke-ebook/
