How we learned to improve Kubernetes CronJobs at Scale (Part 1 of 2)

At Lyft, we chose to move our server infrastructure onto Kubernetes, a distributed container orchestration system in order to take advantage of automation, have a solid platform we can build upon, and lower overall cost with efficiency gains. Distributed systems can be difficult to reason about and understand, and Kubernetes is no exception. Despite the many benefits of Kubernetes, we discovered s