Big billion scale: Scaling high-performance platforms at Flipkart
Flipkart relies on Aerospike as its datastore and caching solution for critical, low-latency use cases like search, recommendations, inventory, pricing, and offers. During sales, the platform handles 90 million QPS across 350+ clusters on a shared, bare-metal Kubernetes environment powered by the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator.
In this session, Aditya Goyal and Sahil Jain share Flipkart’s journey—detailing the strategies, challenges, and optimizations behind operating Aerospike reliably at “Big Billion” scale.
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Big billion scale: Scaling high-performance platforms at Flipkart
Flipkart relies on Aerospike as its datastore and caching solution for critical, low-latency use cases like search, recommendations, inventory, pricing, and offers. During sales, the platform handles 90 million QPS across 350+ clusters on a shared, bare-metal Kubernetes environment powered by the Aerospike Kubernetes Operator.
In this session, Aditya Goyal and Sahil Jain share Flipkart’s journey—detailing the strategies, challenges, and optimizations behind operating Aerospike reliably at “Big Billion” scale.

