Brian Donelan

Brian Donelan, VP of Cloud Platform Engineering at JPMorgan Chase, shares his innovative side project that automates Kubernetes workload scaling based on MacBook screen lock status. He connects macOS notifications to CloudWatch, achieving impressive 80% cost savings by scaling resources to zero when idle. The discussion highlights KEDA's unique event-driven scaling capabilities, creative metrics for different industries, and strategies for optimizing cloud resource usage, making workload management more efficient and sustainable.