How Epic Games Uses Kubernetes to Power Fortnite Application Servers | Linux Today

How Epic Games Uses Kubernetes to Power Fortnite Application Servers

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 14, 2018

In a media and analyst session at the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 18 conference, Paul Sharpe, principal cloud engineering developer at Epic Games, provides some insight into how Epic Games is starting to use Kubernetes to help keep Fortnite’s millions of fans happy.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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