Case Study: ThredUp cuts hardware costs 56% and speeds deployments with Kubernetes from CNCF

With Kubernetes, ThredUP doubled its services while hardware cost dropped 56%

ThredUp, a large online consignment store, faced growing pains as its user base expanded beyond 20 million. Its infrastructure team was hampered by handcrafted servers and a lack of standardization, which hindered productivity and deployment velocity. To address these DevOps and scaling challenges, the company turned to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Kubernetes for a container orchestration solution.

By adopting the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Kubernetes, ThredUp modernized its entire infrastructure. This shift resulted in a 56% decrease in hardware costs even as the number of services doubled, slashed new application rollout from weeks to hours, and cut deployment time for key services by 50%. The move to Kubernetes also enabled seamless autoscaling and empowered developers to deploy multiple times a day.

ThredUp

Chris Homer

Co-founder/CTO