SREday

Site Reliability, DevOps and Cloud

March 12, 2026 London, UK

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Two Autoscalers Walk into a Cluster: KEDA & Karpenter on Day-2 Duty

Christian Melendez
AWS
Abstract

Two autoscalers enter, one cluster wins! Master KEDA + Karpenter Day-2 magic to dynamically scale pods AND nodes. Cut waste, handle spikes, save $$$. Walk away with configs that make your cluster be as efficient and cost-optimized as possible.

Bio

Christian Melendez is Principal Specialist Solutions Architect and EMEA Lead for Compute at AWS, with a strong background in Kubernetes platform engineering. Author of the Kubernetes Autoscaling book. He has been working with Kubernetes since 2017, helping large enterprises—including telecommunications, airline, and ride-hailing companies—optimize their workloads. Christian is the creator of the Karpenter Blueprints project and an active contributor to autoscaling solutions in the cloud-native space. He frequently delivers talks and workshops on Karpenter and Kubernetes optimization strategies.

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