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eBay Search On K8s

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eBay runs its Cassini search on Kubernetes serving ~1.4 billion active listings and ~300K QPS by modeling the query layer as a resizable grid: columns = shards, rows = replicas, deployed with a matrix deployment operator and populated by a file distribution operator that coordinates a daemonset data agent. A mutating webhook shares local PVCs between agent and query pods. Performance tuning (kernel, CPU pinning, disabling irqbalance, p‑state/c‑state, switching to IPVS networking) brings latency near bare‑metal at ~80% CPU utilization.

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  1. 0:00Start
  2. 2:51Architecture
  3. 8:43The Why?
  4. 13:01Search Grid Deployment
  5. 18:01Data sharing between Pods
  6. 19:43Out of the Box Performance
  7. 20:13What moved the curve?
  8. 21:56Performance Optimizations
  9. 22:31Lessons Learned
  10. 26:23Future Work
  11. 29:28Conclusion
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