ARM-Wrestling: Overcoming CPU Migration Challenges to Reduce Costs

Learn about the journey and challenges of migrating cloud workloads to ARM processors in this technical conference talk from KubeCon. Explore the detailed process of making clusters ARM-ready, including handling performance regressions caused by compiler behaviors and addressing subtle memory corruption bugs. Discover practical solutions for load-balancing and auto-scaling when managing workloads across mixed CPU architectures with varying performance levels. Gain valuable insights from Datadog's successful migration experience, where they now run over 50% of their workloads on ARM instances, achieving improved performance and cost reductions in their significant cloud infrastructure.