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Featured August 18, 2024 10 min read

How We Built a Real-Time Auction Engine for Cloud Compute

Building a system that can match thousands of bids per second while maintaining sub-millisecond latency required some creative engineering. Here's how we did it.

Our auction engine processes over 100,000 bids per minute across 40 regions. In this deep dive, we explore the distributed systems architecture, the consensus algorithms we use for price discovery, and the lessons we learned building real-time financial infrastructure.

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Engineering Jul 22, 2024

Scaling Kubernetes to 10,000 Nodes

Lessons learned from managing massive multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters and the optimizations that made it possible.

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Product Oct 5, 2024

Introducing Bid Strategies: Optimize Your Compute Costs

New feature announcement: Set custom bidding strategies to automatically balance cost savings with workload requirements.

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Engineering Mar 15, 2025

Zero-Trust Security in Multi-Tenant Kubernetes

How we implemented hardware-level isolation, network policies, and encryption to keep tenants completely separated.

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Tutorials Nov 12, 2024

Deploy Your First ML Model on KubeBid

A step-by-step guide to deploying a PyTorch model on GPU instances with auction pricing. Save 70% on inference costs.

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Company Dec 18, 2025

KubeBid Year in Review: 2024

From 50K to 200K clusters, our incredible second year. A look back at milestones, customer wins, and what's coming in 2026.

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Product Sep 10, 2024

Understanding Auction Price Dynamics

Why do prices fluctuate? What drives demand? A data-driven analysis of compute pricing patterns and how to optimize.

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Tutorials Jan 8, 2025

GitOps with ArgoCD on KubeBid

Set up continuous deployment with ArgoCD. Automatic rollbacks, drift detection, and policy enforcement for your clusters.

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Engineering May 20, 2025

How We Achieved 99.99% Uptime

The architecture decisions, chaos engineering practices, and on-call culture that makes our platform highly available.

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Engineering Jun 15, 2024

Building Custom Kubernetes Operators

How we built operators to manage auction-based node provisioning and automatic bid optimization.

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