
Innovation In A Large Corporation
This series of posts explores the intriguing challenges I’ve faced in my career. Today, I’ll discuss a significant hurdle: transforming Splunk’s single-tenant architecture to support multi-tenancy, a feature our competitors leveraged to share resources cost-effectively. The initial problem was clear: running Splunk docker containers in the cloud was prohibitively expensive for smaller customer workloads. Given that Splunk clusters are inherently large, creating a small cluster was still financially burdensome for our customers....