Company
Date Published
Author
Shiran Melamed, DevOps Group Leader
Word count
931
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

JFrog has strategically transitioned to AWS Graviton processors for its Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and other managed services, such as Amazon RDS, to optimize performance and cost efficiency, particularly for their JFrog Artifactory. This move is part of a broader global deployment strategy aimed at enhancing cost-effectiveness and sustainability while maintaining high performance for their SaaS solutions. The migration involved meticulous planning, rigorous testing, and the adoption of DevOps best practices to ensure a smooth transition, resulting in significant cost savings and improved performance, including a 20% reduction in compute costs and a 20% drop in CPU utilization. The transition also aligns with JFrog's commitment to sustainability by reducing their carbon footprint by 60%, offering customers enhanced performance, cost efficiency, and environmental responsibility. Lessons learned during the migration process have highlighted the importance of aligning Reserved Instances with new commitments, and JFrog continues to explore further advancements in their infrastructure as part of their "Liquid Software" vision for continuous software innovation.