Achieved Elite status by decreasing lead time for changes and change failure rate
Reached High status by improving deployment frequency and time to restore service
Enhanced service and visibility with Kubernetes
Implemented FinOps to save costs across Google Cloud projects
Kakao Mobility partnered with Google Cloud to modernize its IT infrastructure and improve cloud security using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) alongside DORA principles to speed up app updates, improve reliability, and reduce costs.
Kakao Mobility partnered with Google Cloud to modernize its IT infrastructure and improve cloud security using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) alongside DORA principles to speed up app updates, improve reliability, and reduce costs.
The new way to achieve high peak commercial traffic service reliability maintaining cost efficient cloud operation
Kakao Mobility has adopted Google Cloud with the goal of expanding its services globally while maintaining high reliability and cost-efficiency. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) helped them to modernize their traditional IT infrastructure and also enhance cloud security, streamlining deployments, improving service scalability, and optimizing operational costs. Nowadays, Kakao Mobility can handle significant traffic surges during major events and keep ensuring reliable service delivery for Kakao Mobility app platform users.
Why Google Cloud?
Google Cloud’s adaptable infrastructure accommodates Kakao Mobility’s varying service API usage patterns and ensures scalability. Furthermore, Google Cloud Consulting's Event Management Service (EMS) keeps things running smoothly during peak traffic periods as high-touch services for Kakao Mobility.. The partnership with Google Cloud also provided access to valuable technical consulting services, including FinOps and cost optimization, which helped Kakao Mobility achieve a sustainable innovation approach.
Google Cloud has enabled us to modernize and expand our new services to the market. We also drive FinOps actions across projects, so we can identify more opportunities for cost savings, which our Google Cloud driven service is more profitable.
Bread Kim
Director, lead of DevOps team, Kakao Mobility
Kakao Mobility is Korea's leading mobility platform company. The data collected by the platform in various trips such as taxis, navigation services, shared bikes, and delivery is referred to as mobility data. It is an important source for understanding people's daily lives and social phenomena, as well as a driving force behind mobility innovation.
Industry: Technology
Location: South Korea
Products: Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Vertex AI