From Monolith to Microservices with Kubernetes and Linkerd

After about eight years, Credit Karma had built up an impressive tech infrastructure…based on a PHP monolith. Over the past 18 months weve (carefully) adopted Docker, Linkerd, Consul, Kubernetes, a …

After about eight years, Credit Karma had built up an impressive tech infrastructure…based on a PHP monolith. Over the past 18 months we’ve (carefully) adopted Docker, Linkerd, Consul, Kubernetes, and more as we shifted to microservices in order to enable continued engineering innovation. This is the story of our evolution from monolith to microservices, starting with our own homegrown tools. The talk will cover our iterations from basic plumbing to dynamic service discovery; why we started using Linkerd and selected Kubernetes; and how we evolved our systems step by step while continuing to serve 75 million members.