Case Study: Pearson boosts digital delivery and developer productivity with Kubernetes from Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Pearson Reinventing the world’s largest education company with Kubernetes

Pearson, a global education company, faced challenges in scaling its digital learning infrastructure to support its goal of reaching 200 million learners. Their legacy systems were slow to provision and could not efficiently handle their growing online audience. The company partnered with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation ecosystem, adopting Docker and Kubernetes to build a modern, scalable platform.

By implementing a Kubernetes-based solution, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation technology enabled Pearson to drastically improve its development velocity and system reliability. The results were significant, including a 15-20% boost in developer productivity, a reduction in provisioning time from nine months to minutes, and the achievement of 100% uptime for migrated applications during critical periods.

Pearson

Chris Jackson

Director, Cloud Platforms