Evolution of code deployment tools at Mixpanel

46 · Mixpanel, Inc · June 11, 2021, 9:21 p.m.
At Mixpanel, we’ve had our ups and downs with the cloud. We moved off the cloud back in 2011 to dedicated hardware deployed on Softlayer. Although we got rid of some of the noisy neighbor problems we saw on Rackspace, it came at the cost of over-provisioning our processing capacity because it was tough to get machines on-demand. After a lot of soul-searching, we finally decided to move back to the cloud in 2016. At the time, Kubernetes (k8s) was emerging as the industry leader in container orche...