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Jan 4, 2026 · Cloud Native

Why One in a Million Searches Slowed 100× After Moving to Kubernetes

During Pinterest’s migration of its custom search platform Manas to the PinCompute Kubernetes environment, a rare latency spike—one request per million taking 100 times longer—was traced to cAdvisor’s memory‑intensive smaps scans, revealing hidden resource contention and prompting a targeted fix.