How Starbucks China Revamped Its Log Platform: From VMs to Cloud‑Native Kubernetes with 80% Faster Queries
Starbucks China’s logging team migrated several petabytes of logs from legacy VM‑based Elasticsearch clusters to a cloud‑native bare‑metal Kubernetes platform, upgrading ES from 7.x to 8.x, containerizing components, optimizing storage and Kafka, and achieving up to 80% query speed gains, 30% CPU reduction, and 200% write‑throughput improvement.
