Keynote: How Cloud Native Tech Helped Peloton Ride to Exponential Growth

Peloton is excited to partner with CNCF to innovate and contribute back to the community through open source. They are working on standardizing interfaces, optimizing performance, and moving towards microservices architecture. They are also focused on creating the best developer experience possible and are turning to CNCF's Backstage project to achieve this goal.

• Peloton is partnering with CNCF to innovate and contribute back to the community through open source
• They are standardizing interfaces on grpc to make it easier to connect in a performant manner
• They are optimizing performance across all technologies to create amazing member experiences
• They are moving towards microservices architecture to unlock speed and productivity
• They are turning to CNCF's Backstage project to create the best developer experience possible

Peloton's CEO asked their platform teams to work towards creating the best developer experience in the industry, which led them to turn to CNCF's Backstage project. They want to create a studio for their engineers to build and ship code with minimal toil and innovate as quickly as possible.

During COVID, Peloton experienced exponential growth. Countless customers flocked to the company’s at-home fitness experience, and membership grew from 1 million to more than 4 million people. To continue delivering an experience that positively impacted the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing of these new and existing Members, the Peloton team tapped into the CNCF community and cloud native technologies, helping them accommodate this exponential growth. During this time, Peloton moved 100% of its traffic to the Kubernetes orchestration to make hypergrowth easier and more efficient. It leveraged other cloud native projects such as ArgoCD, Fluentd and the OpenTelemetry observability framework to innovate faster across a wide range of engineering disciplines. In this keynote, Jim Haughwout, Peloton’s VP of Platform, will share how Peloton engineers leveraged cloud native technology to unlock transformational growth for the company, while growing the engineering team itself by 300% in the midst of the pandemic. Haughwout will also share how Peloton will harness cloud native technologies and the power of community to boost the experience of engineers across multiple domains, unlocking further growth with the rise of IoT, streaming, edge, mobile, cloud-native, AI, and ML.