HOW FIGMA MIGRATED TO KUBERNETES

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

Figma migrated from AWS ECS to Kubernetes because as the team's needs became more complex, they were hitting the limitations of ECS. Kubernetes, on the other hand, lets Figma avoid vendor lock-in, benefit from the open-source community, and hire engineers with previous Kubernetes experience. Figma migrated to Kubernetes over the span of multiple months, making sure to loadtest, incrementally shift traffic through weighted DNS, and use real workloads along the way.