Tom Kerkhove articles

Tom Kerkhove

Senior Software Engineer in Azure API Management, KEDA co-maintainer

Tom is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure API Management, leading Azure API Management's future to allow customers to build API ecosystems in a hybrid and multi-cloud landscape with its self-hosted gateway and Azure Arc. He has been working in the cloud-native space for 5+ years. Autoscaling is in his DNA and is one of the active maintainers of Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA), a CNCF Graduation project that makes application autoscaling on Kubernetes dead simple. KEDA helps scale big enterprises such as Xbox, Zapier, Reddit, FedEx, Alibaba Cloud, and many others.

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August 24, 2023

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4 min read

Scaling workloads on Microsoft Azure with Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling

By Tom Kerkhove, Senior Software Engineer in Azure API Management, KEDA co-maintainer

KEDA reduces the complexity of infrastructure autoscaling, making it simpler to configure, manage, and secure the application auto-scaler.