Ignite by Akamas: The dark side of Kubernetes? Light it up with application-aware optimization

Case Study

Faster apps, lower bills: optimizing travel search in the cloud

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All online businesses are facing strong challenges in maximizing the throughput of their most critical service during the peak-demand season in a cost-effective way.

In less than 2 weeks, Akamas optimized lastminute.com key Java microservice-based application running on Kubernetes, by achieving the following results:

23% increase in peak transaction volume;
20% reduction in operating costs due to the rightsizing of cloud infrastructure;
27% decrease in average search response time under load.