Case Study: Pear Deck improves deployments and monitoring with CNCF Kubernetes and Prometheus

Pear Deck Infrastructure for a growing edtech startup

Pear Deck, an education technology startup, faced significant challenges with scaling and monitoring its classroom interaction web app. As their user base grew rapidly, their Heroku infrastructure became costly and difficult to manage, preventing developers from staging new versions easily. The CEO, Riley Eynon-Lynch, also noted that tracing and monitoring were nearly impossible, a problem compounded by many customers connecting through government firewalls via Firebase instead of directly to their servers.

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Kubernetes and Prometheus provided the solution. Pear Deck migrated to Google Kubernetes Engine for orchestration and used Prometheus for monitoring. This immediately improved their development workflow, allowing them to deploy configurations across clusters in 30 seconds and set up full monitoring in a single afternoon. This gave the team immense confidence in their app's stability, enabling them to quickly identify and troubleshoot issues and even build custom alarms for their business goals.

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Riley Enyon-lynch

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