How Kubernetes SAVED Pokémon GO from an EPIC FAILURE

Опубликовано: 01 Июнь 2026
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Official Google Cloud article about Pokémon GO: https://cloud.google.com/blog/product...

In 2016, Niantic expected a certain volume of players. In the worst-case scenario, 5 times more. But what happened was ABSURD: the traffic was 50 TIMES GREATER than expected! The servers couldn't handle it, the game crashed, and the dream was turning into a real-time nightmare.

That's when a Google technology, called Kubernetes, came into the picture as the true hero of this story. In this video, I tell how Kubernetes saved the biggest mobile game launch in history and became the industry standard for cloud applications.

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