Tweakers Developers Summit 2021 (digital) | June 2,3,4,5

Korjan van Wieringen

Scaling the Hue Cloud (2011-2021)

Always wanted to know how many engineers it takes to turn on a lightbulb?

From the start in 2011 to the current setup, the Hue Cloud has evolved substantially. Providing reliable remote access to many Hue bulbs around the world.

Herman and Korjan will provide a short history of the Hue Cloud and share some details about how the current setup of Kubernetes clusters are managed with GitOps.

Track: Back-end
Level: Beginner
On-demand video: Yes

The talk can be viewed 14 days (after June 5, 2021) for logged visitors on the platform.

Korjan

Korjan van Wieringen and Herman Banken build and maintain the Philips Hue Cloud that allows you to control your lights out-of-home and use voice assistants.

As software engineers working on the Hue project at Q42, they have many years of experience running Kubernetes at a large scale.