Rightsize Workloads like Dependabot

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Sam Farid

CTO/Founder

2024-11-28T04:50:06.129Z

Flightcrew helps reduce costs and improve reliability by autonomously generating pull requests to rightsize pods and nodes. It works like Dependabot or Renovate, right in your GitHub workflow

Why We Built This

Most engineering teams are overpaying for Kubernetes because their workloads are over-provisioned.

Rightsizing workloads isn't rocket science, but it requires a fair bit of time, knowledge, and risk tolerance. However, letting sizing configs get stale means you're either over-provisioned and overpaying, or under-provisioned and prone to outages.

What's New

Flightcrew now tackles the 5 leading causes of overspending on Kubernetes. We’ve expanded Flightcrew’s functionality to:

  1. Automatically generates PRs to proactively rightsize pods and node resources.
  2. Base recommendations on historical data, performance simulation, and service dependencies.
  3. Take input SLOs, utilization thresholds, and frequency preferences.
  4. Predict how config changes to these objects will affect resource utilization, availability, cost and other SLOs.
  5. Generates visualizations and explanations so that every engineer can understand the logic, justification, and impact of each recommendation.

Is Flightcrew Right for You?

There are many tools out there that can help with pod sizing, and it's important to at least pick one to automate this tedious work.

Flightcrew fits into your existing git workflows and proactively pushes recommendations, rather than being another dashboard your team needs to go check.

Rightsizing is free so let us know if you'd like to try it out! Send a note to hello@flightcrew.io.

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Sam Farid

CTO/Founder

Before founding Flightcrew, Sam was a tech lead at Google, ensuring the integrity of YouTube viewcount and then advancing network throughput and isolation at Google Cloud Serverless. A Dartmouth College graduate, he began his career at Index (acquired by Stripe), where he wrote foundational infrastructure code that still powers Stripe servers.

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