How to Build an Elastic Auto‑Scaling Cloud‑Native Application
After a 15‑fold traffic surge forced manual scaling of an e‑commerce platform, the team rebuilt the system with true elastic scaling—horizontal, vertical, and architectural—using Kubernetes, Envoy, KEDA, predictive autoscaling, and a comprehensive observability stack, achieving fully automated scaling from 12 to 80 pods in under 90 seconds and cutting peak resource costs by 60%.
