Zero Downtime at Scale: Rewriting a Legacy Proxy in Peak Season

🚀 Date: September 3, 2025
 ✨ Time: 7:30 PM (EET)
 ✨ Language: English
✨ Online event hosted by the DevOps User Group
✨ Free registration (required): https://d.dev.bg/2v63se2c
✨ DevOps group info: https://dev.bg/groups/devops/

ℹ️ About the Event:
In early 2025, a critical legacy reverse proxy at DraftKings was migrated from outdated, Windows-only tech to a modern .NET Core-based solution running in Linux containers on Kubernetes.

Over just six months, the application was re-engineered and deployed — across multiple datacenters and regions, with zero downtime — during peak season. This talk shares how they achieved it with:

✅ Containerization and Kubernetes
 ✅ .NET Core upgrades
 ✅ Precise canary rollouts
 ✅ Multi-region deployment strategy
 ✅ Improved platform stability and developer experience

🚀 Includes a live Q&A session.

🎟️ Speaker: Garett Edwards – Senior Lead Software Engineer @ DraftKings
Garett leads critical infrastructure projects at DraftKings. He specializes in Kubernetes-based deployments, core libraries, developer enablement, CI systems, and large-scale tech migrations. As part of the Platform Staff Engineers team, he drives initiatives that streamline development and enhance reliability and performance across the board.

✨ Event partners:

• DraftKings – Digital sports & gaming entertainment
• StorPool Storage – Cloud-native distributed storage
• DataArt – Global technology consultancy

🚀 Don't miss this chance to learn how world-class engineering teams manage transformation — without disruption.