Observability at the Edge. How Chick-fil-A provides observability… | by Brian Chambers | chick-fil-atech | Medium
Learn about how we are applying technology across the disciples of Software Engineering, Product Development, Analytics, and Enterprise Architecture to maximize our ability to serve Chick-fil-A Operators, Team Members, and Customers. Follow publication Top highlight 167 4 Listen Share by Brian Chambers, Alex Crane Chick-fil-A runs a fleet of Edge Kubernetes clusters in each of our ~2,800 restaurants to enable highly available, business critical workloads to run without internet dependency. On top of this fleet we run a set of platform services that provides services for things like identity management, application deployment, and observability across the fleet. In addition, we also manage hundreds of thousands of internet of things (IOT) devices such as fryers, grills, or tablets (user interfaces) that send billions of MQTT messages each month in addition to operational metrics and logs. Operating 2,800+ discreet footprints of Kubernetes is not without its challenges. The same is true