Company
Date Published
Author
Dan Lamm
Word count
559
Language
English
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None

Summary

Tilting Point, a prominent free-to-play games publisher, transitioned from Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and Jenkins to Kubernetes with the assistance of Harness, resulting in a threefold increase in deployment frequency and significant cost savings by eliminating the need for a dedicated DevOps engineer. Previously, Tilting Point's lead software engineer, Evan Thomas, was the sole person managing the CI/CD pipelines, which were prone to rolling deployment risks and false monitoring alerts, consuming a substantial portion of his time. The move to Kubernetes, facilitated by Harness, empowered Thomas to modernize the company's applications and achieve deployment efficiencies similar to those seen in larger tech companies with extensive DevOps teams. This strategic shift has enabled Tilting Point to enhance their software delivery processes without expanding their team, supported by the ongoing partnership with Harness's support team.