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Posts by Joe Thompson
Technical Product Marketing Manager at Platform9
Joe has almost 30 years of experience in IT operations and architecture, from helping out at small Internet Service Providers to building large-scale data-analysis facilities. Since 2013, he’s been focused on cloud-native technologies like Kubernetes and OpenStack -- both the advantages of using them, and the operational and administrative challenges they can present.
Latest posts by Joe Thompson (see all)
Kubernetes FinOps: Elastic Machine Pool(EMP) Step-by-Step guide : Part 1
By Joe Thompson
In previous blog posts and articles, we’ve laid out some of the issues operators encounter with optimizing Kubernetes utilization, and how our Elastic Machine Pool product comprehensively solves those issues... Read More
Kubernetes FinOps: Java memory management in containerized environments
By Joe Thompson
If you’ve spent much time working in the enterprise application space lately, either as a developer or an operator, you’ve probably run across Java applications in containerized environments like Kubernetes.... Read More
Kubernetes FinOps: Comparing Platform9 Elastic Machine Pool to the Karpenter Autoscaler for EKS
By Joe Thompson
A popular tool in today’s FinOps landscape for managing EKS clusters is the Karpenter autoscaler. Created at AWS, Karpenter has more capabilities than simple “0 to N” autoscaling – in... Read More